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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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Los Angeles death metal project. The name's hostility channels LA's darker undercurrents through extreme music.
Acualli is a death and black metal band from Long Beach, California. With nine releases to their name, the band has built a substantial body of work that draws from Mesoamerican themes and imagery, filtered through a lens of extreme blackened death metal.
Adamantium is a death metal and crust band from California. The band merges the raw, political urgency of crust punk with the heaviness of death metal.
Los Angeles death metal project. The name signals opposition and hostility from the city's vast underground.
California death metal project. The name channels struggle and hardship into Golden State extremity.
San Diego death metal and progressive project named after the character from Dan Simmons' Hyperion saga. Sci-fi-influenced extremity from Southern California.
Bakersfield, California death metal project. Eternal death from the Central Valley's oil country.
Aeternum is a black and death metal project from California, still in its early stages with limited material released.
Vista, California death metal project. Extremity from the inland reaches of North San Diego County.
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California Metal Index is an index of California heavy metal bands — death metal, black metal, thrash metal, doom metal, metalcore, hardcore punk, and all heavy music. Browse bands by genre, find metal concerts near you, and discover the California metal scene.