Explore California Metal
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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Browse California Metal Bands
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Central California's Orcutt-based death/groove/alternative hybrid brings an unpredictable stylistic restlessness to the table, fusing groove metal's rhythmic punch with death metal grit and alternative metal's appetite for texture.
Im Tode melds melodic death metal's sharp guitar work with black metal's spectral hostility, approaching the intersection of these styles with the kind of intensity the German title implies.
Oakland's Impaled have spent nearly two decades sharpening a death metal and grindcore sound with surgical humor and genuine brutality — one of the Bay Area's most reliably visceral underground acts.
Crawling out of La Puente since 2020, Impalement drag death metal into suffocating doom territory, piling on rot and weight in equal measure. Their sound sits somewhere between a funeral procession and a cave-in.
California's Impure Consecration have been crafting dense, sacrilegious death metal since 2016, their sound steeped in the kind of anti-theological menace that treats every riff as an act of desecration.
San Pedro's In Abominabiles Facti Sunt Carpi operate at the extremes of blackened death metal with a name pulled from scripture and a sound that suggests total spiritual collapse, active since 2018.
California's In Absence of Angels blend progressive ambition with the crushing weight of death-doom, crafting sprawling, desolate compositions that feel like grief mapped onto music since their 2021 formation.
San Diego's In Apparition Form have been pushing technical death metal's boundaries since 2016, slicing through complex polyrhythmic structures with surgical precision and the relentless drive Southern California breeds.
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