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Featured Album
Actin' Up (2023)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
The Mountain Of Gold (2018)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
HYPA HYPA Tour - Live In Ludwigsburg (2023)
05/25 @ The Theater at MGM National Harbor, National Harbor
Featured Progressive Metal Album
The Atlantic Albums (2019)
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Burlington, Vermont heavy metal and hard rock act that released at least one single before dissolving.
Heavy metal band from Vicenza, Italy, active since 2013. Captain Kill delivers straightforward, riff-driven traditional metal from the Veneto region.
Maine death metal outfit active in the mid-to-late 1990s on Rattle Snake Records, playing straightforward death metal before disbanding — distinct from the Minnesota thrash act of the same name.
Progressive heavy-thrash band from Turin, formed in 2016. Caravanseraj blends Balkan-influenced progressive elements with thrash aggression from Piedmont.
Power and heavy metal band from Prague, Czech Republic, formed in 2014. They craft anthemic, melodic metal built on powerful vocal performances and driving guitar work.
Heavy metal band from Brunswick, Germany, formed in 2018. They deliver straightforward, riff-driven heavy metal with a hard-hitting, no-nonsense approach.
Juneau, Alaska thrash and heavy metal band formed around 2020 that released material independently before splitting up.
Albany, New York heavy metal band active since 2008, operating in the traditional metal vein as an independent act.
Czech heavy and thrash metal veterans from Zadverice-Rakova near Zlin, active since 1984. As one of the oldest metal bands in the Czech Republic, Cardiak have maintained a four-decade presence in the country's metal underground.
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