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Lie To My Face (2022) (2022)
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Metallica (Remastered 2021) (2021)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Spitting Fire Live Vol. 2 (2013)
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Long Beach, California groove metal and hardcore punk outfit with fifteen releases since 2019. Their LATE series — numbered and themed — builds one of the most extensive catalogs in Southern California's heavy underground.
Twentynine Palms stoner metal band from the high desert outside Joshua Tree, their sun-scorched, psychedelic doom perfectly mirroring the alien landscape of California's Mojave.
Los Angeles black metal project whose EPs Remember and Hiraeth — the Welsh word for an untranslatable longing for home — channel exile and nostalgia through atmospheric extremity since 2023.
Los Angeles groove metal act delivering heavy, mid-tempo power from the City of Angels, channeling mythological immortality themes through crushing rhythmic assault.
Mission Viejo, California black metal project whose 2018 debut En Trance plays on the double meaning of entrance and entrancement. Atmospheric black metal from Orange County's suburban sprawl.
Los Angeles post-metal and progressive project whose 2016 debut Temporal explores the nature of time through atmospheric, boundary-crossing heaviness. Cerebral LA metal.
Alameda, California black metal and speed metal project whose releases channel the Bay Area's fog-shrouded atmosphere through raw extremity since 2012. The German-inflected name adds a martial edge.
San Mateo, California thrash metal project — distinct from Alameda's Atomikrieg — whose twin 2016 demos promise apocalyptic thrash from the Peninsula suburbs. Two projects with nearly identical names operating in the same Bay Area.
Oakland/San Francisco sludge metal project with deep roots stretching back to 2003. Five releases including the lowercase-titled atone summer beats and beyond the clouds reveal a veteran act that has evolved from pure sludge into more atmospheric territory across two decades.
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