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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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Blackened death metal act from Zvolen in central Slovakia, formed in 2019. Ceremony of Silence has quickly gained recognition for their dense, ritualistic extreme metal.
Death metal and grindcore band from Tampere, Finland, active since 2006. With nearly two decades of grinding extremity, Ceremoth are veterans of the Finnish grind scene.
Melodic death-metalcore act from Ufa, the capital of Bashkortostan, formed in 2025. Cerera brings fresh extreme metal energy to the Ural region.
Cereviscera is a Chicago, Illinois band fusing technical death metal with progressive and thrash influences, constructing intricate, shifting compositions that reward close listening. Their songwriting balances cerebral complexity with raw metallic force.
Pagan melodic death metal band from Marseille, France, formed in 2014. They blend pagan themes and folk elements with melodic death metal from the Mediterranean coast.
Ceromancy is a Chicago, Illinois band fusing black and death metal with sweeping symphonic layers, creating elaborate and dramatic compositions with both brutality and orchestral grandeur. They draw on occult themes to reinforce their dense, multifaceted sound.
Melodic death metal band from Germany, formed in 2020. They blend the melodic sensibility of Scandinavian-style death metal with crushing aggression.
Certain Death is a thrash metal band from Newberg, Oregon, delivering straightforward, aggressive thrash informed by the classic American underground of the 1980s. Their no-frills approach centers on tight riffing and punishing tempos.
Death metal band from Sofia, Bulgaria, formed in 2021. Their releases including 'Profane Chants Of The Forsaken' deliver straightforward, no-frills death metal from the Bulgarian capital.
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