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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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Spread across multiple towns in the Pyrenean foothills including Tarbes, Pau, Lourdes, and Montrejeau, Sihtu has been fusing progressive death metal with grindcore since 2009. Their geographically dispersed lineup reflects the collaborative spirit of southern France's metal underground.
Presov's Sik Salvation deliver death metal from the eastern Slovak city since 2020. Their diseased-redemption name channels the contradiction of salvation through sickness into compositions of extremity from Slovakia's third-largest city.
Silence of the Abyss brings progressive death/groove metal from Bastia, the principal city of northern Corsica, active since 2018. Operating from this Mediterranean island gives their heavy sound an uncommon geographic origin within European extreme metal.
Moab, Utah's Silence of the Mortuary bring death metal to one of the more geographically remote corners of the American underground, delivering the genre's morbid imagery and guttural aggression since 2017.
Atlanta's Silence the Martyr fuse the cold, mechanized textures of industrial metal with death metal's aggression and heaviness, producing a sound that is as calculated as it is brutal since 2014.
Devastating Melodic Death Metal / Metalcore (early); Deathcore (later) from San Antonio.
Ocean Beach, California's Silence the Prince work within melodic death metal's characteristic blend of harsh extremity and melodic guitar leads, bringing San Diego's coastal scene sensibility to a genre rooted in Scandinavian influences since 2018.
St. Louis-based Silence the Witness blend the hook-driven intensity of metalcore with the heavier, more technically demanding elements of melodic death metal, drawing on both traditions to craft a dynamic and aggressive sound since 2015.
Silence the Yearning blend melodic death metal with gothic metal from the Spanish underground, combining aggressive extremity with dark romantic longing. Active since 2015, they bring emotional depth to their Iberian melodic extreme sound.
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