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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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Part of the UK's ever-evolving heavy music tradition, this act channels death metal and doom metal with a focus on guttural vocals and churning downtuned riffs. Formed in 2020, based in Glasgow, expect nothing but full-bore death metal savagery.
Death metal act from Bad Oeynhausen in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, delivering aggressive extremity since 2020. Their name, a variant spelling of "enigma," hints at the mysterious depth beneath their death metal assault.
Brutal death metal act from Brugg, Switzerland, delivering cranium-splitting extremity named after brain inflammation since 2018. Their medically themed moniker reflects a clinical precision applied to the most punishing forms of death metal.
Firmly rooted in death metal, this Norwegian actfrom Lier delivers HM-2 filth and d-beat fury in the old Swedish tradition without compromise. They've been at it since 2016, and their approach favors no-frills brutality over technical showmanship.
Technical death metal act from Berlin, Germany, delivering precision-driven extremity since 2015. Their approach combines the cerebral complexity of technical death metal with the aggressive punch of modern extreme metal.
Death metal and metalcore band from Toulon on the French Riviera, formed in 2019. They deliver modern extreme metal from the Mediterranean coast.
Idaho's Eon of Anguish conjure black/death metal in the isolated Pacific Northwest interior, harnessing the region's remote vastness into music of cold and relentless darkness since 2021.
Knoxville's Eonian pair sweeping symphonic orchestration with melodic death metal's twin-guitar ferocity, crafting cinematic extremity from the Appalachian foothills since 2021.
Black/death metal project from France launched in 2020. They channel decay and darkness through fierce extreme metal.
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