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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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Brutal death metal project from Moscow and Saint Petersburg, formed in 2024. Cepharea delivers punishing death metal from Russia's two largest cities.
Death-doom metal band from Brest in Brittany, France, formed in 2015. They merge the crushing weight of doom with death metal aggression from the westernmost tip of France.
Experimental death metal band from Reading, England, formed in 2014. They push death metal boundaries through unconventional approaches.
Death metal band from Grand Rapids, Ohio, delivering raw and direct death metal in the American underground tradition.
Death-doom metal band from Herborn, Germany, formed in 2024. They merge the crushing weight of doom with death metal aggression from the Hessian Lahn-Dill region.
Death-grind act from Ankara, formed in 2025. Cerahat — Turkish for 'pus' — delivers visceral extremity from the Turkish capital.
Death metal act from Vladivostok on the Pacific coast, active since 2015. Cerber — Russian spelling of Cerberus — delivers hellish death metal from the Russian Far East.
Riverside, New Jersey band working in death-doom, combining the crushing weight of doom metal with the brutality of death metal for a slow, dense, and suffocating sound.
Lakeland, Florida death metal band playing in the tradition of the Sunshine State's storied brutal death metal underground.
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