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Necromanteum (2023)
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Vertigo (Sunbather: 10th Anniversary Remix / Remaster) (2023)
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Featured Power Metal Album
We Three Kings (Metal Holiday) (2015)
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Los Angeles black metal and crust punk act fusing the rawness of both scenes into a filthy, anarchic racket that sounds like it was recorded in a squat and played through broken equipment on purpose. The LA underground grime comes through in every note.
Pasadena, CA doom and stoner metal band that has fully embraced the fuzz-drenched, heavy psych sound cultivated across Southern California. Their music sounds like standing in a warm, swirling darkness.
San Francisco black metal act Countess Erzsebet take their name from the infamous Hungarian noblewoman and channel that dark history into cold, bleak compositions. Their music sits in the raw and ritualistic end of the American black metal underground.
Santa Rosa black metal outfit channeling bleak, atmospheric menace through raw production and unrelenting hostility. Their sound is sparse and suffocating, built on repetition and cold dissonance.
Orange County crossover thrash act channeling the reckless energy that defined the California hardcore-meets-metal scene. Creatures keep the pit-starting spirit of classic crossover alive with fast, aggressive songs.
San Francisco black metal act drawing its name from Tolkien's dark crow spies and its sound from cold, hateful tradition. Crebain operates in the grim, atmospheric end of American black metal with conviction.
Los Angeles black metal act Crevasse craft bleak, frost-bitten compositions in the underground tradition, filtering darkness through an urban Southern California lens. Their work pursues raw atmosphere over polish or accessibility.
Northern California black/folk metal act Crone weave pagan atmosphere and acoustic textures into their blasting framework, drawing on nature worship and the wilder traditions of folk-infused extreme metal.
San Diego's Crypt of Nostalgia conjure atmospheric black metal wrapped in a haze of cold, yearning melancholy. Their music is equal parts fierce and sorrowful, indebted to the second-wave European masters.
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