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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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Rhode Island black/death act Enucleator traffic in dissonant darkness and war-metal ferocity, a brutal presence in the small but uncompromising New England underground since 2023.
Salt Lake City technical death metal outfit Envenom deliver dense, surgical riffing and labyrinthine song structures, showcasing Utah's underrated extreme metal underground since 2017.
Decidedly heavy and deliberately confrontational, this death metal act from Umeå traffics in guttural vocals and churning downtuned riffs. Since 2014, they've built a catalog that reflects the Gothenburg school's homeland.
When Envig emerged in 2015 from Lidköping, they brought with them a sound rooted in death metal — all punishing grooves interlocked with frenzied tremolo passages. Primal ferocity drives every note of their catalog.
In existence since 2007, this Bollnäs Death Metal outfit delivers guttural vocals and churning downtuned riffs. Their place within the Gothenburg school's homeland speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
In existence since 2010, this Omsk Brutal Death Metal and Death Metal outfit delivers guttural vocals and churning downtuned riffs. Their place within Russia's sprawling, uncompromising metal landscape speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Crushing Melodic Death Metal / Metalcore from Houston.
Willow Springs, Illinois death metal outfit Envy the Dead cut their path through the Chicago suburban underground with unadorned brutality and straight-for-the-throat riff delivery since 2020.
Wielding death metal, gothic metal, and melodic death metal as their weapon, this Italian outfit from Potenza has been refining their craft since 2019. Their sound hinges on suffocating heaviness anchored by rumbling low-end, delivered with ferocious dedication.
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