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Featured Album
Death's Forgotten Children (2023)
Featured Death Metal Album
Necromanteum (2023)
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One Day Closer to the End of the World (2019)
05/12 @ The Basement East, Nashville
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
From Days Unto Darkness (2019)
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Out of Vacaville, California, Earth Down formed in 2015 at the intersection of death metal's brutality, metalcore's crunch, and hardcore's urgency — a heavier-than-average take on a genre crossover that rarely lacks intensity.
Out of Ojai, California since 2019, this band lives at the collision point of grindcore, death metal, and powerviolence — short songs, maximum hostility, zero tolerance for restraint.
A Ventura, California death-grind act with over a decade behind them, Eat the Living has consistently delivered the kind of gore-soaked, blast-heavy brutality their name promises.
Santa Barbara, California's Eating Fear blends black and death metal into a coastal darkness, active since 2012 and operating outside the typical scenes that tend to define both genres.
Benicia, California's Ebola is a technical death/thrash outfit formed in 2016, the kind of band that treats musical precision and unrelenting aggression as two sides of the same coin.
Fresno death metallers Ecryptic have been at it since 2008, delivering the genre's Central Valley strain with the kind of patient, persistent dedication that separates lifers from trend-chasers.
Los Angeles newcomers forged in 2025, Edicius crash together heavy metal muscle, thrash aggression, and hardcore attitude into a raw, street-level racket. Early days, but the formula is combative and direct.
Los Angeles technical black/death metal outfit Eiris has been refining a precision-engineered approach to extremity since 2017. Their music balances surgical riffing with the savagery expected of the blackened death tradition.
A California-based outfit formed in 2023, Eldon Cult merges progressive structures with the melodic and brutal ends of death metal, crafting technically ambitious music that refuses to sit still within any single subgenre.
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