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Necromanteum (2023)
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Vertigo (Sunbather: 10th Anniversary Remix / Remaster) (2023)
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Featured Power Metal Album
We Three Kings (Metal Holiday) (2015)
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San Diego black/death metal act blending seasonal melancholy with extreme metal aggression, contributing to Southern California's diverse underground with atmospheric intensity.
Los Angeles brutal death metal band formed in 1994, active in the California death metal underground through the mid-1990s before splitting up.
Oakland's Barbarous is a death metal outfit that channels medieval battle, war, and gore into a sound rooted in the classic brutalist tradition of the genre.
Cabinet are a black/death metal band from the remote mountain town of Mammoth Lakes, California, active since 2021 and exploring themes of decomposition and sordidity.
A death metal band from San Diego, California, Cadavered is a recent entry into the city's underground scene, offering straight-forward, punishing death metal in the classic mold.
Formed in Santa Ana, California in 2024, Cadaverous Odour takes the splatter and speed of brutal death metal and goregrind and channels it through an intense, blood-soaked sonic attack.
Melodic death metal band from the San Diego area, active since 2012 and part of the South Bay scene that has long cultivated both heavy and melodic extremes.
Los Angeles progressive/technical death metal outfit active since the mid-2010s, weaving complex rhythmic structures and melodic density into a forward-thinking extreme metal framework.
Los Angeles death metal project active around 2015, brief and unsigned, leaving no recorded output before splitting up.
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