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Actin' Up (2023)
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Fertile Green (2012)
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I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Future Sequence: Live at the Fidelitorium (2015)
05/31 @ Bourbon Theatre, Lincoln
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Krasnyy Chikoy-based black metal and death metal act, active since 2007 delivering venomous shrieks over walls of distortion. Rooted in one of Eastern Europe's most extreme metal communities, the compositions unfold with ritualistic patience and venomous intent.
Decidedly heavy and deliberately confrontational, this death metal and thrash metal act from Arzamas traffics in guttural vocals and churning downtuned riffs. Since 2016, they've built a catalog that reflects Russia's sprawling, uncompromising metal landscape.
Thrash/death metal band from Felgueiras in northern Portugal, active since 2015. Their sound fuses thrash metal's speed with death metal's aggression from the Minho region's industrial interior.
Death/thrash metal band from Toulouse, France active since 2013. They deliver fierce extreme metal from southern France.
Part of the Gothenburg school's homeland, this act channels death metal and folk metal with a focus on traditional folk melodies woven into heavy metal frameworks. Formed in 2017, based in Arvika, every recording pushes a little further into uncharted sonic territory.
Evilrise is a death metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, active under their current name since 2016 and signed to In Musica Records. The band released the album "Necrotech… to Take the Edge off Our Hunger," recorded and produced at In Musica Records in São Paulo, exploring themes of protest and political hatred through brutal death metal.
Gothenburg, Sweden — death metal and groove metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2015, they deal in percussive blast-beat onslaughts and cavernous production. Low-tuned guitars and guttural vocals form the bedrock of their attack.
Black, death, and thrash metal band from London, England formed in 2019. They deliver a ferocious blend of extreme metal subgenres from the British capital.
Out of Harrisonburg, Virginia, Eviscera has built their identity around the intricate intersection of melody and technicality since 2013. Their melodic technical death metal cuts sharp with layered guitar work and progressive arrangements that reward close listening without sacrificing aggression. They represent a thoughtful strain of the mid-Atlantic extreme metal underground.
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