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Let You Go (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
The Bestiary (2025)
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One Day Closer to the End of the World (2019)
05/11 @ WorkPlay Theatre, Birmingham
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Halo (2017)
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Brownsville post-metal act from the southernmost tip of Texas, crafting atmospheric heaviness informed by the unique cultural crossroads of the Rio Grande Valley.
Memphis groove metal band named after the four-armed Mortal Kombat boss, delivering equally punishing heavy riffs from Tennessee's blues capital with a sense of humor.
Arms of Ra channels sludge metal from Paris since 2010, their Egyptian sun-god name adding ancient mysticism to their crushing, low-tempo compositions. Over a decade of activity has established them within the French capital's heavy underground.
Arms of War is a death/thrash metal band from Brussels, formed in 2010 by former Bloodshot guitarist Vadim Grebenko alongside drummer Alex Shag and bassist Roma Siadletski (also of Iron Mask and Magic Kingdom). Their 2014 debut album "Legions of Steel" was produced with Triptykon guitarist V. Santura, who also contributed a guest solo, and blends thrash aggression with melodic death metal and neo-classical lead guitar passages.
Arms to Oblivion channels groove metal from the Suffolk town of Ipswich since 2021, their nihilistic name capturing the destructive force of their rhythmically driven sound. Their East Anglian origins feed a distinctly English approach to groove metal.
Armstrong Gun delivers heavy metal from the Surrey town of Horley since 2020, named after the revolutionary Victorian-era artillery piece. Their industrial-military name suits compositions that fire with the precision of their historical namesake.
Saint Paul, Minnesota black metal project whose 2016 debut The Fall of Nihil channels the collapse of meaninglessness itself — a double negative that implies the terrifying emergence of meaning. Philosophical black metal from the Twin Cities.
Seattle doom metal project whose 2017 debut Night of the Mystics invokes the Lovecraftian fish-god through ritualistic heaviness. The Pacific Northwest's perpetual grey providing the perfect atmosphere for their oceanic dread.
San Bernardino, California thrash metal veterans whose 1998 debut The Evil has Landed... channels Sam Raimi's cult horror films through late-'90s thrash. Inland Empire aggression with a sense of B-movie humor.
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