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Featured Album
The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Ad Astra (2025)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Serpent & Spirit (2021)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Make It Rain / On the Other Side of Tonight (2024)
05/15 @ Palladium Times Square, New York City
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Anima Tempest channels gothic and doom metal from Moscow since 2022. Their Latin name meaning 'soul storm' drives compositions of tempestuous dark romanticism from the Russian capital.
Cincinnati heavy metal project whose 2020 single 2 Nights delivers straightforward NWOTHM energy from the Queen City. No pretension, just classic metal built on riffs and attitude.
Animal Farm delivers technical thrash metal with crossover elements from Naples since 2013, their Orwellian name adding political subtext to their precise, high-speed approach. From southern Italy's chaotic metropolis, they bring sardonic social commentary through thrash.
Animal House plays power metal from the Gorizia area in Friuli-Venezia Giulia since 2014, their irreverent name contrasting with the disciplined melodicism power metal demands. From Italy's Slovenian borderland, they forge anthemic metal with northeastern vigor.
Athens' Animal Man Machine explore the boundaries of black metal through a conceptual lens examining the relationship between the bestial, the human, and the mechanical. Since 2020, this project has pushed the genre into uncomfortable philosophical territory.
Lansing sludge metal project from the Michigan underground.
Maple Grove, Minnesota death metal project. The vigilante-justice name channels righteous fury.
Norwich, Connecticut death metal project with one of the most absurdist names in the underground.
Thessaloniki's Animalator serve up relentless death metal driven by crushing riffs and pummelling percussion. Active since 2010, they represent the brutal end of the Greek death metal spectrum with an uncompromising sonic assault.
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