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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Playlist: The Very Best of Corrosion of Conformity (2010)
05/09 @ Mr Smalls Theatre, Millvale
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Heretique is a thrash/black/death metal band from Gliwice, Poland, formed in 2009. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
Death groove metal act from Portishead near Bristol, active since 2020. Their location-inspired name connects them to a town famous for trip-hop while they deliver crushing groove-laden death metal.
Thrash Metal/Metalcore outfit rooted in Rouen, channeling fierce underground intensity since 2013. Their thrash assault combines speed, aggression, and precision in equal measure.
Death/doom/thrash metal band from Cologne, Germany, formed in 2020. Their genre-spanning approach merges the crushing weight of doom, the brutality of death metal, and the speed of thrash.
San Francisco's Herpes lean into D-beat and goregrind with the kind of self-aware punk nihilism that the Bay Area's underground has always nurtured since their 2010 formation. The name tells you everything about their attitude toward conventional good taste.
Thrash/heavy metal band from Valencia, Spain, active since 1994. Three decades of thunderous thrash and heavy metal make them one of the longest-running metal acts in the Valencian Community.
Herzoga is a thrash metal band from Kraków, Poland, active since 2023 and delivering aggressive, riff-driven thrash with relentless intensity. The project channels the speed and fury of the genre.
Philadelphia's Hessian strip the genre back to its most feral components — black metal ferocity, speed metal momentum, and the raw bite of early thrash. Since 2014 they've operated at the intersection where aggression meets velocity.
Progressive thrash/death metal band from Široki Brijeg, Bosnia and Herzegovina, originally formed as OrioN in 2007. Their conceptually linked albums Human At Sight and Monster At Heart explore the human condition through complex, thematically ambitious progressive death metal across nearly an hour of material each.
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