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Pray For Peace (2021)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
Death Atlas (2019)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Necromanteum (2023)
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San Diego's Call of the Wild blend heavy, doom, and stoner metal with hard rock into a thick, riff-driven sound that has been rolling since 2020.
Melodic death metal outfit from Coachella, California, Call Upon Your Gods have been honing their hook-laden yet aggressive approach since forming in 2017.
California solo project by Agravain that evolved from power/melodic death metal into black, pagan, and folk metal territory, drawing on themes of despair, fantasy, and ancient legend before disbanding around 2010.
Gardena, California death metal outfit with roots going back to 1990, an early presence in the West Coast underground extreme metal scene.
San Diego raw black metal solo project formed in 2015, channeling misanthropy and ritual philosophy through the grey wolf as metaphor.
Whittier, California thrash metal band active since 2012, operating in the straightforward heavy underground.
California death/grind project active since 2021 on Anguished Records, operating in the brutal intersection of death metal and grindcore.
The brainchild of San Francisco musician JBOT, Captured by Robots is a one-man grindcore performance art spectacle in which the founder claims to be enslaved by two animatronic robots who shred guitar and drums both live and on record.
California black metal project launched in 2016, crafting raw and atmospheric material in the solo underground tradition.
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