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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-thrash act from Karlshamn in Blekinge, formed in 2017. Cryoshock delivers sharp, aggressive extreme metal from Sweden's southeastern coast.
Industrial death metal band from France, emerging in 2025. They channel mechanized aggression through industrial death metal.
Death-thrash band from Palermo, Sicily, active since 2011. Cryphtex delivers aggressive extreme metal from the heart of the Mediterranean.
Livermore, California's Crypt traffic in classic heavy metal rooted in the Bay Area's long tradition of muscular, riff-forward songwriting. Their material honors old-school structures while keeping the energy raw and live-sounding.
North Carolina's Crypt Baby smash together brutal death metal, grindcore, and splatter-house extremity into short, pulverizing blasts. Their approach is deliberately caustic, prioritizing density and speed above all else.
Klamath Falls, Oregon's Crypt Dweller merge death metal's brutality with doom metal's glacial, oppressive pacing. Their songs sink low and slow, pausing only to crush harder.
Death metal band from Blackpool, England, formed in 2024. They deliver crushing death metal from the Lancashire coast.
Ohio's Crypt Hammer deal in bone-dry, no-frills death metal that hammers through every track with single-minded force. Their music channels the blunt, workmanlike brutality of the Midwest underground.
Springfield, Missouri's Crypt Key combine death metal aggression with doom's slow, dragging tempos into a sound that's simultaneously crushing and suffocating. Their compositions shift between outright violence and funereal crawl.
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