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Toledo, Ohio black metal project channeling the Rust Belt's industrial decay and harsh Lake Erie winters into frigid, atmospheric extremity.
Cincinnati/Dayton, Ohio black metal project with twelve releases since 2022. An extraordinarily prolific act whose Cosmic Projections Collection and subsequent albums build an immense catalog of celestially themed black metal from the Ohio River Valley.
Toledo, Ohio melodic death metal act with two full-lengths since 2020. ACROSS THE AEONS and Eternity's End deliver ambitious, cosmically scaled melodeath that punches well above the typical underground weight class from the Glass City.
Cleveland, Ohio progressive metal project whose 2012 EP Room 17: Hours Between Shadows and Light suggests a concept album exploring liminal spaces. The mathematical name reflects the precision of their approach to prog from the Rock Hall city.
Cincinnati, Ohio metalcore act whose 2010 split with Daggers creates a recursively violent pairing. Queen City aggression in its most direct form.
Lebanon, Ohio death metal band from the Cincinnati suburbs, delivering technical extremity informed by Southwest Ohio's productive underground metal community.
Kent, Ohio doom band from the college town that birthed Devo, delivering a very different kind of heavy — slow, meditative, and crushingly weighty.
Painesville, Ohio thrash metal act whose 2017 EP Wrath of Militaristic Barbarism delivers exactly the kind of war-obsessed thrash fury the title demands from the Lake Erie shore.
Cleveland, Ohio thrash metal project with five releases since 2019. The Void Curse EP and subsequent singles blend occult themes with nuclear imagery, forging a distinctive identity in the Rock City's competitive thrash scene.
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