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Featured Album
Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
Featured Groove Metal Album
Soundtrack to Your Escape (The Quiet Place Version) (2022)
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Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Helping Hands…Live & Acoustic At The Masonic (2019)
06/25 @ Hampden Park National Stadium, Glasgow
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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.
Southern Florida death metal act Ephemeral traffic in suffocating brutality with the sweltering intensity the Sunshine State's underground is known for, active since 2019.
The Russian city of Moscow serves as headquarters for this death metal, doom metal, and melodic death metal operation, whose arsenal includes suffocating heaviness anchored by rumbling low-end. Each release doubles down on cavernous production and churning tremolo work.
Black metal, death metal, folk metal, and melodic death metal project from Finland, active since 2020. They weave folk elements into extreme metal with a genre-crossing approach.
Death metal band from Galați in eastern Romania, active since 2017. Their sound delivers death metal brutality from the major port city on the Danube.
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