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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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Melodic progressive metal from Houston with art-rock grandeur.
Ridgeland, South Carolina thrash band delivering paradoxically named destruction from the Lowcountry, channeling nuclear-age anxiety into aggressive speed metal.
Orlando, Florida NWOTHM project with seven releases since 2024. American Nightmare and multiple demos demonstrate a band producing material at breakneck speed, blending traditional metal with hardcore energy from the theme park capital.
Atomic Roar is a thrash metal and metalpunk band from Rio de Janeiro, formed in 2003, featuring Victor Whipstriker of the punk outfit Whipstriker on bass alongside Vinícius Hellpreacher, Victor Poisonhell, and Léo Witchcaptor. The band deals in raw, street-level thrash with strong punk crossover energy, documented across four studio albums — "School of Lust" (2006), "The Warfare Merchants" (2009), "Atomic Freaks" (2011), and "Never Human Again" (2017) — as well as numerous split releases with bands from the global underground.
Fort Collins, Colorado stoner metal project whose 2021 demo The Heavy Ones captures rough-hewn, radiation-tinged fuzz from the foothills of the Rockies.
Portland, Oregon thrash metal project. Nuclear transgression from the Pacific Northwest's boundless metal underground.
Atomic Spell is a black/thrash metal band from Santa Marta, Magdalena, Colombia, formed in 2022. The band released a demo, "The Persistent Onslaught of the Witch," in 2023 followed by the EP "Nuclear Speed Ritual" in 2024, playing under the Unsigned/independent banner with themes of death, blasphemy, and rock 'n' roll. The band suffered a loss when guitarist Ricardo Goenaga Ferro passed away in 2025.
Atomic Spell is a black/thrash metal band from Santa Marta, Magdalena, Colombia, formed in 2022. The band released a demo, "The Persistent Onslaught of the Witch," in 2023 followed by the EP "Nuclear Speed Ritual" in 2024, playing under the Unsigned/independent banner with themes of death, blasphemy, and rock 'n' roll. The band suffered a loss when guitarist Ricardo Goenaga Ferro passed away in 2025.
Atomic Spitfire delivers death 'n' roll from Uppsala since 2024. Their warplane-nuclear name drives explosive compositions that merge death metal's aggression with rock 'n' roll swagger.
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