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Featured Album
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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French deathcore band from Strasbourg, formed in 2017. They deliver crushing deathcore from the Alsatian capital.
Spanish melodic death/groove metal band from Lleida in Catalonia, formed in 2014. They blend melodic death metal harmonies with groove metal's rhythmic weight.
Zagreb-based death/doom metal act active since 2021, merging crushing heaviness with funereal tempos and mournful atmospheres. Their compositions unfold with deliberate patience, layering guttural vocals over glacially paced riffs that evoke profound desolation.
French black/death metal band from Calais, active since 2002. With over two decades of fleshly extreme metal, they are one of the Channel coast's most established acts.
Samara-based brutal death metal outfit active since 2013, 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.
Edinburgh-based death metal act with hardcore/crust influences, active since 2024. Their crossover approach bridges the mosh pit and the blast beat with equal conviction, pairing death metal's heaviness with punk's confrontational directness.
Finnish death metal and goregrind band from Joensuu, formed in 2025. They deliver blistering death-grind from eastern Finland.
Emerging in 2022 from Bodø, this death metal act channels the genre's primal aggression through tight, riff-driven compositions. Their recordings carry the unmistakable weight of classic death metal.
German melodic death metal band from Emden in East Frisia, active since 2001. With over two decades of output, they are one of the North Sea coast's most seasoned melodeath acts.
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