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Actin' Up (2023)
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Fertile Green (2012)
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I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Future Sequence: Live at the Fidelitorium (2015)
05/31 @ Bourbon Theatre, Lincoln
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Melodic death/doom metal band from Sofia, Bulgaria, active since 2013 with six releases spanning demos to full-lengths. Their sound ranges from classic gothic rock to crushing old school death doom, drawing comparisons to Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride, and Anathema.
German melodic and progressive death metal band from Munich and Passau, formed in 2024. They weave progressive structures through melodic death metal foundations.
German technical deathcore band from Munich, formed in 2022. They push deathcore into technical extremity with precise musicianship and complex arrangements.
Bleak Transcendence is a funeral doom/death metal trio from Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, formed in 2023 by Alexandre Antunes, Michael Siegwarth, and Wagner Müller. The band released their debut album "Mortuanima" in May 2025, a 48-minute work fusing the ferocious intensity of death metal with hauntingly slow funeral doom, enriched by synths, violins, and ethereal textures conveying desolation and introspection.
Death/doom outfit from Thessaloniki, formed in 2017. Their music inhabits the oppressive space where death metal's aggression meets doom's suffocating weight.
Uppsala-based brutal death metal outfit active since 2014, delivering relentless blastbeat-driven punishment and guttural vocal extremity. Their compositions trade in the genre's heaviest currency: slamming breakdowns, inhuman vocals, and wall-to-wall brutality.
Experimental black/death/heavy metal band from Guildford, active since 2013, self-described pioneers of new-wave easy-listening metal. Performing under theatrical pseudonyms, they blend avant-garde extremity with deliberately absurdist humor.
Death/thrash metal band from Ans, Belgium, active since 2015. They combine death metal's heaviness with thrash metal's speed and precision in a potent crossover.
Bleed is a death metal band from Rancagua, Chile, formed in 2008 out of a shared love for extreme sounds and vintage horror cinema, influences that shape both their music and lyrical content. Their debut LP Ritual Decapitation appeared in 2017, followed by Magna Morte with a revised lineup including drummer Víctor Sepúlveda and guitarist Brandon Acosta, and the live document Rotten Sessions Live in 2023.
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