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Castaway (2023)
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Heimdal (Deluxe) (2024)
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Cleveland doom and post-metal act Christmas submerges listeners in slow-moving walls of distortion and bleak atmospheric texture. Their music carries the weight of Ohio's rust belt surroundings, melding crushing heaviness with expansive sonic drift.
Springfield, Ohio groove metal band Chronic Aggression keeps it heavy and direct, built on mid-tempo down-tuned riffs and a rhythm-first approach to metal songwriting. Their sound sits firmly in the machine-groove tradition popularized by the early 1990s.
Dayton, Ohio's Chronic Demise operates in the grinding intersection of death metal and grindcore, favoring speed, blasting, and concise bursts of brutality. Their music draws from the Midwest's tradition of keeping extreme metal gritty and unpretentious.
Columbus, Ohio death metal band Church keeps it appropriately grim and heavy, drawing on the Ohio underground's tradition of no-nonsense extreme metal. Their music prioritizes atmosphere and crushing heaviness in equal measure.
Columbus, Ohio doom/sludge duo Churches Burn construct massive, slow-crawling dirges that lean heavily on feedback and minimalist songwriting. Their sound is oppressively heavy and desolate, built for endurance rather than aggression.
Cincinnati's Citizen X traffic in groove-driven thrash built on thick mid-paced riffs and a blue-collar Midwestern intensity. Their material locks hard into the pocket before erupting into fast-lane aggression.
Columbus experimental black/thrash act Citranomicon approach genre boundaries as suggestions, welding cold tremolo-picked fury to unconventional structures and a genuinely strange sonic imagination. They resist easy categorization.
Cleveland crossover/thrash outfit Civil Disobedience fuse the raw energy of hardcore punk with thrash's technical precision, built for maximum impact in small, sweaty venues. They represent the Ohio underground at its most combative.
Cleveland heavy metal act Clifford Meyer operates in the sturdy tradition of Ohio blue-collar metal, offering straightforward riff-driven material with earnest conviction. Their work sits in the classic mold of American heavy metal without pretension.
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