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Necromanteum (2023)
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Vertigo (Sunbather: 10th Anniversary Remix / Remaster) (2023)
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We Three Kings (Metal Holiday) (2015)
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A death metal act from Chula Vista, California, formed in 2020, Towers of Flesh and Blood channel a direct and unembellished approach to the genre, delivering the kind of visceral, blunt-force heaviness that anchors San Diego's death metal underground.
Out of Eureka on California's foggy northern coast, Transient Messiah have been delivering death metal since 2012 — a remote origin that lends their sound a certain isolation and darkness fitting for the genre's bleakest impulses.
San Francisco's Trauma draw from the city's storied metal heritage, reviving the power and speed metal traditions of the Bay Area with anthemic riffs and a high-octane approach that recalls the scene's 1980s heyday.
Los Angeles death-thrash band formed in 2016, merging the technical aggression of death metal with thrash's velocity and street-level intensity. A decade into their career, they remain rooted in the DIY ethos of the LA underground.
Trial by Combat is a death/thrash metal band from Santa Rosa, California, formed in 2013, delivering punishing riffs and aggressive tempos rooted in the Bay Area's extreme metal tradition.
Trichomoniasis is a brutal death metal band from California, formed in 2019, delivering the dense, gore-laden extremity and punishing blast-beat-driven aggression characteristic of the brutal death metal subgenre.
True to Form is a San Jose, California band formed in 2023 that fuses groove metal's rhythmic heaviness with death metal brutality and thrash aggression into a hard-hitting hybrid sound.
Avant-garde technical death metal band from Rancho Cucamonga, California, formed in 2019, pushing the boundaries of the genre with unconventional song structures and psychedelic sonic experimentation layered over complex death metal riffing.
San Diego, California death/doom metal band formed in 2023, merging the sepulchral atmosphere and mournful pacing of doom with the brutality of death metal in the style of the genre's earliest practitioners.
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