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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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Denver's Cryogen deal in melodic death metal with sharp Scandinavian-inflected riffing and aggressive rhythmic drive. Their sound balances hook-laden melodies against pulverizing death metal heaviness.
Apple Valley, Minnesota's Cryogen grind out straightforward death metal rooted in the brutal Midwestern tradition. Their approach favors relentless aggression over melody, hammering out dense, punishing compositions.
Death metal act from Chernivtsi in western Ukraine, active since 2011. Cryogenic Implosion has delivered over a decade of death metal from the Bukovina region.
Brutal death metal band from Rennes in Brittany, France, formed in 2020. They deliver punishing, guttural extremity from the Breton capital.
Brutal death metal band from Turku, Finland, formed in 2017. They deliver punishing, guttural extremity from Finland's oldest city.
Death metal act from Ufa, capital of Bashkortostan, formed in 2018. Cryomation channels frozen, crushing death metal from the Ural foothills.
Melodic death metal band from Ahtari, Finland, active since 2010. They craft cold, melodic death metal from the rural Finnish heartland.
Death metal project from Zagreb, formed in 2021. Cryopathic Thanatology explores morbid themes through clinical, pathology-informed brutality.
Progressive death metal band from Paris, France, active since 2010. They merge progressive complexity with death metal intensity from the French capital.
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