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Featured Album
Masters of Morbidity (2022)
Featured Power Metal Album
No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
AMENRA "Song To The Siren" by This Mortal Coil (written by Tim Buckley) (2021)
05/27 @ Théâtre Beanfield, Montreal
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Liars & Thieves (2024)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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German heavy/power metal band from Cologne, active since 2005. They deliver commanding power metal with heavy metal foundations from the Rhineland.
New Jersey act Bastard Skull plays a hard-charging blend of heavy and thrash metal out of Bayonne, active since 2022 in the tradition of classic crossover-era riffing.
Thrash metal outfit from Råholt, formed in 2013. Their compositions hit with the urgent intensity that defines the genre at its best: fast, tight, and unapologetically aggressive.
Heavy metal outfit from Bologna, formed in 2018. Their material channels the spirit of iron-fisted riffing and anthemic songwriting that has defined heavy metal since its inception.
Heavy metal outfit from Portopalo di Capo Passero (Syracuse), formed in 2021. Their material channels the spirit of iron-fisted riffing and anthemic songwriting that has defined heavy metal since its inception.
Czech heavy metal band from Pečky, formed in 2018. They deliver traditional heavy metal with a modern edge rooted in the Czech underground scene.
German heavy metal band from Nuremberg and Bayreuth, formed in 2020. They play classic German heavy metal drawing from the proud traditions of the Franconian metal scene.
BAT is a heavy metal and speed metal trio from Richmond, Virginia, formed in 2013 by Municipal Waste guitarists Ryan Waste and Nick Poulos, who channeled their love of the dirtier and more primitive side of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal into a stripped-back analog format. The band recorded their initial material to analog reel-to-reel tape, and with drummer Chris Marshall joining in 2017, solidified a road-tested lineup. BAT are currently signed to Nuclear Blast Records.
Heavy metal, sludge, and grunge-inflected rock band from Southend-on-Sea in Essex, active since 2015. They bring a gritty, genre-crossing heaviness that draws on hard rock, sludge metal, and the murkier side of grunge.
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