Allegaeon

Hailing from Colorado, Allegaeon fuse punishing death metal riffs with expansive, surprisingly non-death-obsessed lyrics to create their own style of thoughtful and pummeling heavy metal. Emerging in 2010 with the highly regarded Fragments of Form and Function, the band continued to hone their melody-driven technical death metal sound on subsequent standout efforts like 2014's Elements of the Infinite, 2019's Apoptosis, and 2022's Damnum. Formed in 2008 by guitarists Ryan Glisan and Greg Burgess, bassist Corey Archuleta, and vocalist Ezra Haynes, the band were off to a ripp...