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Actin' Up (2023)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Fertile Green (2012)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Future Sequence: Live at the Fidelitorium (2015)
05/31 @ Bourbon Theatre, Lincoln
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Spanish death metal and grindcore band from Ponferrada in León province, formed in 2016. They deliver bleeding death-grind from the mountainous El Bierzo region.
Brutal death metal band from Lida, Belarus, active since 2012. They deliver pulverizing brutal death metal from the western Belarusian town.
Bleeding is a death metal band from São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, Brazil, listed on Metal Archives as an independent, now split-up act. The band was part of the underground death metal scene of Brazil's interior São Paulo state, operating without major label support during their active years.
German project from Berlin, formed in 2019, that evolved from dungeon synth origins toward death/doom metal. Their stylistic transformation from synthesizer atmospherics to crushing extreme metal represents a dramatic creative shift.
Spanish death metal and deathcore band from Tarragona, formed in 2014. They combine death metal brutality with deathcore breakdowns from the Catalan coast.
Punishing brutal death metal from Lisbon, formed in 2006. Guttural vocals scrape the basement of human register while churning riffs and gravity-blast percussion pummel with mechanical precision.
German deathcore and death metal band from Wuppertal, formed in 2013. They combine deathcore breakdowns with death metal brutality from the Bergisches Land.
Death/thrash outfit from Utrecht Province, bridging two pillars of extreme metal. Their sound channels the raw energy of 1980s thrash through death metal's heavier lens, pairing aggressive vocals with riff-centric compositions.
Thrash/death metal band from Romanshorn, Switzerland, active since 2010. They deliver aggressive, high-velocity extreme metal from the shores of Lake Constance.
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