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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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Belleville, Illinois grindcore project delivering brief, violent bursts of extremity from the Metro East side of St. Louis. Minimal output, maximum aggression.
Mount Horeb, Wisconsin thrash metal act whose 2022 demo captures raw, unpolished speed metal from small-town Driftless Area. Named for exactly what they deliver.
Animator has thrashed out of Waterford — Ireland's oldest city — since 2010, bringing speed and aggression from the sunny southeast coast. Their high-energy approach to thrash metal has earned them a devoted following within Ireland's touring circuit.
Animi Vultus blends black metal with ambient from Saint Petersburg before relocating to Melbourne, Australia, active since 2002. Their Latin name meaning 'expressions of the soul' has guided over two decades of transcontinental atmospheric black metal.
Animica explores progressive metalcore from the Caldas da Rainha and Alfeizerão area in Leiria district since 2010. Over fifteen years from the central Portuguese coast, they have developed a technically ambitious approach to hardcore-influenced metal.
Nyack, New York melodic death metal and progressive project whose 2020 EP Three Songs teams with producer brwnsounds for a polished take on technical extreme metal. The suburban Hudson Valley setting belies the sophistication of their approach.
Animo Aeger is a black metal project based in Berlin, Germany, formed in 2012, whose German-language releases including Fieber, Storchenwahrheit, KotzeAdel, and Ab-Fakt suggest an avant-garde, conceptual approach to black metal. The project's philosophical and literary sensibility sets it apart from more conventional black metal acts.
Animorph delivers symphonic metal from Saint Petersburg since 2024. Their shape-shifting name — evoking the popular science-fiction series — drives orchestrally enhanced compositions of transformative power from Russia's imperial city.
Colorado Springs thrash metal project from the Colorado underground.
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