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Actin' Up (2023)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
The Mountain Of Gold (2018)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
Death Atlas (2019)
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Playlist: The Very Best of Corrosion of Conformity (2010)
05/13 @ The Pyramid Scheme, Grand Rapids
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Thrash/speed metal band from La Roda, Spain, active since 2010. Their high-velocity attack channels the energy of classic thrash and speed metal from Castilla-La Mancha.
Hailsteel is a heavy/speed metal act from Athens, Greece, active since 2022 and channeling aggressive, heavy music through its uncompromising artistic vision. The project delivers powerful metal from the Greece scene.
Atlanta thrash pioneers Hallows Eve have been at it since 1985, predating most of the genre's defining records and helping establish the Southern US as a legitimate player in extreme metal's early years. Their aggressive, speed-forward approach influenced a generation of acts and they remain one of Georgia's most important metal exports.
Hammerhawk is a speed metal act from Beverwijk, Netherlands, active since 2013 and channeling aggressive, heavy music through its uncompromising artistic vision. The project delivers powerful metal from the Netherlands scene.
Brooklyn's Hammerhoid have been gleefully ransacking the intersection of speed, thrash, and black metal since 2014, their New York City chaos lending the music an urgency that straight-up retro acts rarely achieve.
Cleveland's Hammr channel the blackened speed metal of the early 1980s with a punk-soaked fury that fits perfectly in a city with a long history of no-bullshit heavy music. Active since 2018 and showing no signs of slowing.
An established heavy/speed metal voice from Turin, contributing to Italy's underground since 2019. Riff-driven fury and tight rhythmic execution define their contributions.
Lansing, Michigan's Harbinger race through heavy, speed, and thrash metal with relentless momentum since 2015, another act from the Great Lakes underground proving that the Midwest has always had the chops.
Heavy/speed/thrash metal band from Blanes, Spain, formed in 2022. Their triple-threat approach combines heavy metal weight, speed metal velocity, and thrash aggression from the Costa Brava.
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