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Featured Album
Actin' Up (2023)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Fertile Green (2012)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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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Death and thrash metal band from Steenokkerzeel, Belgium, formed in 2024. A newer force in the Belgian extreme metal underground, they combine the heaviness of death metal with the velocity of thrash.
Denver melodic death and power metal band blending soaring power metal ambition with the aggression of melodic death. Colorado's thriving metal scene provides fertile ground for their genre-straddling approach.
Boise death metal and hardcore crossover act bringing Pacific Northwest aggression to a genre-blurring extreme. Their sound is physically confrontational and direct, built for live punishment.
Death metal act from Silesia, formed in 2023. Cry of the Nile — evoking Egyptian death metal traditions — brings Nile-inspired extremity to the Polish scene.
Melodic death-metalcore act from Azov near Rostov-on-Don, active since 2014. CryAgain delivers hook-driven extreme metal from the Don River region.
Melodic death metal band from Jyvaskyla, Finland, formed in 2018. They craft melodic yet intense death metal from the Finnish lake district.
Melodic death-heavy metal band from Helsinki, Finland, active since 2013. They blend melodic death metal harmonies with classic heavy metal hooks.
Death-thrash metal band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2016. They merge death metal brutality with thrash speed from the Catalan capital.
Melodic death metal band from Solothurn, Switzerland, formed in 2020. They blend the aggression of death metal with melodic guitar harmonies and dynamic song structures.
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