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Dead Bodies Everywhere (2021)
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Metallica (Remastered Deluxe Box Set) (2021)
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Outside The Box (2021)
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San Jose death metal outfit Mortuous have been churning out dense, suffocating old-school death metal since 2010, with a filthy mid-paced assault rooted in the American underground and a pronounced taste for doom-laden tempos.
Los Angeles technical deathcore act Mouth of the Serpent have been pushing the boundaries of extremity since 2010, bringing technical death metal's surgical precision to deathcore's brutal compositional architecture within the sprawling LA underground.
Concord, California's Mox Morbus have been building their Bay Area death metal sound since 2012, carrying forward the region's long tradition of technically inclined, riff-forward brutality with a relentless and uncompromising approach.
Originating in Eureka, California, Mr. Bungle are among the most unpredictable acts in metal history, weaving death metal, thrash, avant-garde composition, and experimental noise into a singular and frequently disorienting sonic vision that refuses any single genre label.
Sacramento's Mucus Membrane have been inflicting their brand of grotesque death metal on California's underground since 2019, combining the clinical gore of OSDM with the savagery of the West Coast scene to produce something genuinely nauseating in the best possible way.
A San Francisco death-doom project born in 2025, Mudslinger buries melody beneath layers of grinding low-end, pairing cavernous death metal brutality with the suffocating crawl of doom.
Oakland death metal band Muldrotha, named for the MTG character and formed in 2019, brings Bay Area aggression to the genre with a grim, relentless approach that channels the East Bay's long lineage of extreme underground acts.
Hesperia, California death metal project Munsterman launched in 2025, emerging from the high desert with a straightforward brutality that strips the genre back to its ugliest, most unadorned foundations.
Los Angeles melodic death metal act Murashita has refined a sound since 2015 that balances harmonic guitar work with genuine heaviness, drawing on the Scandinavian melodeath tradition while developing a distinctive voice rooted in the Southern California underground.
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