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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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Katy, Texas brutal death metal act playing in the tradition of the Texas brutal death scene, with influences rooted in the sound of bands like Devourment.
Brutal death metal band from Madrid, Spain, formed in 2016. They deliver punishing, guttural extremity from the Spanish capital.
Grindcore band from Ostrava, Czech Republic, active since 1994. Cerebral Turbulency are veterans of the Czech grind scene, delivering three decades of relentless extremity across albums like Crash Test and Germ Of Erorr.
Brutal death metal band from Berlin, Germany, active since 2008. They craft punishing, technically proficient death metal with nearly two decades of Berlin underground experience.
Melodic death metal band from Rautalampi, Finland, formed in 2022. They craft melodic death metal from the rural Finnish heartland.
Death metal band from Turku, Finland, formed in 2018. They deliver crushing death metal from Finland's oldest city.
Chesapeake, Virginia band working across death metal, deathcore, and technical death metal, combining the surgical precision of tech-death with the breakdown intensity of deathcore.
Death metal band from Middlesbrough, England, formed in 2015. They deliver crushing death metal from the Teesside.
Death metal band from Copenhagen, Denmark, active since 2008. They deliver raw, filthy death metal from the Danish capital with nearly two decades of underground experience.
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