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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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California NWOTHM project whose 2015 singles collection The Great Attraction channels Orwellian themes through traditional heavy metal. A dystopian lens on the genre's escapist traditions.
Nashville deathcore project from the Tennessee underground.
Tosin Abasi's Animals As Leaders redefined what instrumental metal could be when the project launched from Washington, D.C. in 2007. Fusing djent, progressive metal, and jazz fusion through Abasi's revolutionary eight-string guitar technique, albums like 'The Joy of Motion' and 'Parrhesia' pushed technical boundaries while remaining genuinely musical. Alongside guitarist Javier Reyes and drummer Matt Garstka, the trio has become the gold standard for modern progressive instrumental metal.
Animals Grace is a death metal band from Munster, Germany, formed in 2014, delivering the genre's characteristic brutality from the heart of Westphalia. The band contributes to Munster's active underground metal scene with their aggressive approach to death metal.
New York City grindcore project. The inverted nature documentary name captures grind's misanthropic worldview.
Animamortua plays heavy and thrash metal from Malta since 2017, their Latin name meaning 'dead soul' adding classical gravity to their Mediterranean island metal. From the smallest EU member state, they punch above their weight in heavy metal power.
Winchester, Virginia thrash metal act releasing singles since 2016. Dirt Road Chronicles and Hustle Tactics pair rural Shenandoah Valley grit with thrash metal velocity — a distinctly Appalachian take on the genre.
Boulder Creek black metal project from the California underground.
Animate Death creates death metal from Koszalin on the Pomeranian coast since 2022. Their paradoxical name — bringing death to life — drives compositions that reanimate the genre's most violent impulses.
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