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Actin' Up (2023)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
The Mountain Of Gold (2018)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
Death Atlas (2019)
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Playlist: The Very Best of Corrosion of Conformity (2010)
05/13 @ The Pyramid Scheme, Grand Rapids
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Sludge metal/crust band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2018. Their crushing fusion of sludge heaviness and crust punk aggression creates a nihilistic wall of sound from the German capital.
Hvati is a death metal/crust band from Reykjavík, Iceland, active since 2020 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
HxDxYxF is a sludge metal/crust punk band from Moscow, Russia, active since 2025 and delivering crushing, suffocating heaviness from the low end. The project channels the abrasive, punishing weight of sludge metal.
Dark grindcore/crust punk project from Jyväskylä, carving a path through Finland's underground since 2011. Their work explores the genre's heaviest territories through savage delivery.
Formed in 2008 in Washington, D.C., Ilsa play a crushing intersection of sludge metal, death metal, and crust punk that has earned them a reputation as one of the heaviest bands in the American capital. Signed to Relapse Records, the band built their catalog through prolific releases starting with their debut full-length The Maggots Are Hungry, maintaining a raw, underground ethos throughout their run.
Immured is a death metal/crust-grindcore band from Nuremberg, Germany, active since 2005, delivering two decades of ferocious extremity that merges death metal's guttural brutality with crust punk and grindcore's raw velocity. The band channels Franconia's underground energy into relentless bursts of sonic violence.
Implore is a blackened death metal/grindcore/crust band operating between Hamburg, southern Germany, and Linz, Austria, active since 2014, with a discography spanning from Depopulation through The Burden of Existence and A Decade In The Shadow. The band merges the filth of crust punk with blackened death-grind intensity, including a split release with American powerviolence act ACxDC.
Indoctri is a death metal/crust band from Stuttgart, Germany, formed in 2020, fusing death metal's guttural heaviness with the raw, politically charged aggression of crust punk. The band bridges extreme metal and punk from the Swabian capital.
Insidious Process is a black/sludge metal/crust punk act from Gothenburg, Sweden, active since 2009 and fusing black metal aggression with punk-influenced rawness and energy. The project bridges extreme metal and underground punk traditions.
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