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Lie To My Face (2022) (2022)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Metallica (Remastered 2021) (2021)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Spitting Fire Live Vol. 2 (2013)
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Troncale is a Los Angeles thrash metal band formed in 2021, carrying on the aggressive Bay Area and Southern California thrash traditions with sharp riffing and high-energy performances.
Truant is a melodic heavy metal and hard rock band from Vallejo, California, formed in 2010, drawing on the Bay Area's rich tradition of hook-driven, guitar-led metal.
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.
California atmospheric and depressive black metal project active since 2013, fusing the bleak introspection of DSBM with progressive rock structures to create expansive, emotionally consuming soundscapes.
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.
California atmospheric black metal project formed in 2025, building vast, expansive soundscapes from cold tremolo-picked guitar and sweeping ambience in the genre's most meditative tradition.
Hard rock and heavy metal band from San Francisco, California, formed in 2018, delivering the forceful, hook-driven sound the city's hard rock scene has long been known for.
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.
Tung is a sludge metal band from Ventura, California, formed in 2019, delivering slow-grinding heaviness rooted in the coastally-tinged Southern California underground scene.
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