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Proof (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
Death Atlas (2019)
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Make It Rain / On the Other Side of Tonight (2024)
05/07 @ House of Blues Myrtle Beach, North Myrtle Beach
Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Thrash metal act from Hamburg, Germany, delivering relentless, high-speed aggression since 2014. Their name evokes the collapse of power, driving a sound built on furious riffing and breakneck tempos.
Death metal, progressive metal, speed metal, and thrash band from Paris, France launched in 2024. They deliver a technically ambitious, multi-genre extreme metal assault from the French capital.
Chicago's Empty Grave have been thrashing the crossover circuit since 2016, turning the city's hardcore aggression loose on a hard-charging riff machine that owes equal debts to D.R.I. and early Metallica.
Dallas death metal unit Empty Shell have been excavating brutality from the Texas underground since 2014, delivering pulverizing riff work with the no-frills directness the genre demands.
San Francisco's Empty Suits channel blackened thrash with a punk backbone, dragging Bay Area aggression through the filth of second-wave black metal since 2019.
Salem, Oregon's Empty Tomb meld thrash riffing with hardcore urgency, a relentless Pacific Northwest hybrid that hits fast and leaves little room to breathe.
Philadelphia groove-thrash unit Empyre Rock Club hit hard with a heads-down approach — fat grooves, thrash tempos, and the kind of riff economy that keeps crowds moving.
Death/thrash metal and grindcore hybrid from Torrelavega in Cantabria, Spain, delivering chaotic three-genre extremity since 2003. Their two-decade career of genre-blending aggression makes them a veteran force in the Spanish underground.
Heavy and thrash metal band from Winterthur, Switzerland, hammering out aggressive, riff-driven metal since 2021. Their approach combines the best of both genres with an emphasis on raw power and speed from the Swiss German-speaking region.
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