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Manual Manic Procedures (2024)
Featured Grindcore Album
Apocalypse (2023)
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Featured Doom Metal Album
The Bestiary (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues (2015)
05/31 @ Bourbon Theatre, Lincoln
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Death-doom metal band from Wolfsburg, Germany, active since 2013. They craft putrid, filthy death-doom that crawls through murky sonic depths.
Melodic black-death metal band from Rosslau in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, formed in 2020. They weave melodic elements through a foundation of black and death metal.
Brutal death metal act from Dobryanka in the Perm region, formed in 2023. Cryptic Conversion delivers punishing brutality from the Ural foothills.
Death-thrash metal band from Velbert, Germany, formed in 2017. They merge death metal brutality with thrash metal precision from the Bergisches Land region.
Death metal band from Stoke-on-Trent, England, formed in 2021. They deliver crushing death metal from the Staffordshire Potteries.
Death metal act from Moscow, formed in 2022. Cryptic Dissolution channels dark, decomposing death metal from the Russian capital.
Symphonic death-deathcore act from Örebro, formed in 2023. Cryptic Doom merges orchestral elements with modern extreme metal from central Sweden.
Berlin, Connecticut's Cryptic Entity deliver brutal death metal with the clinical, precise attack favored in the Northeast underground. Their compositions are dense and punishing, constructed around technically demanding riff patterns.
Seattle's Cryptic Excision produce death metal with the precise, surgical quality associated with the Pacific Northwest underground. Their sound is clean in execution but unrelenting in aggression.
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