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Slave to the Scalpel (2021)
Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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AMENRA “De zotte morgen” (written by Zjef Vanuytsel) (2020)
05/27 @ Théâtre Beanfield, Montreal
Featured Groove Metal Album
State Of Unrest (2023)
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Blackened death metal act from Odesa, formed in 2023. Cunt Gushes Tungsten delivers provocatively raw extreme metal from the Black Sea port city.
Black-death-grind act from Saratov, active since 2014. Cuntgoat delivers provocatively raw extremity from the Volga city.
North Carolina's Cuntplague are an anti-religion black metal band who have waged an auditory battle against modern hypocrisy since forming in 2012, with releases on Flamecult Records that traffic in raw, confrontational extremity. Their 2013 self-titled debut established a sound rooted in old-school black metal nihilism and contempt for organized faith.
Bulgarian death/black metal band from Sofia, founded in 2005 by Mihail Sergeev, Angel Sergeev, and Plamen Dimitrov. Their two albums, Mistaken by Design (2007) and Pandaemonium (2015), traverse a wide spectrum from melodic death and black metal to progressive and power metal influences.
Troy, New York's Cur inhabit the colder reaches of atmospheric black metal, blending the Upstate New York landscape's industrial bleakness with expansive, textured guitar work and a raw, introspective approach to the genre. The Capital Region's extreme underground has long operated in the shadow of New York City, but projects like Cur make it clear that the real darkness runs north.
Indianapolis's Curb work the volatile intersection of black metal's atmospheric menace and death metal's structural brutality, a combination that has always felt at home in the Midwest's underground extreme scene. The Indiana act operates independently, adding to a regional lineage that includes Coffinworm and Demiricous.
Meriden, Connecticut's Curse operate in the unadorned, misanthropic tradition of black metal, contributing to a New England underground scene that has produced some of the most raw and austere extreme metal in the country. The Connecticut band's lyrical and sonic focus remains fixed on the genre's core themes of darkness and anti-religious contempt.
Black metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2022. They channel eternal darkness through raw black metal.
Cleveland blackened death metal act drawing on both Scandinavian black metal atmosphere and brutal American death metal aggression. Their sound merges icy tremolo riffs with punishing low-end devastation.
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