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Proof (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Make It Rain / On the Other Side of Tonight (2024)
05/07 @ House of Blues Myrtle Beach, North Myrtle Beach
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Minneapolis groove metal project. The name's imagery of burning aspirations channels Midwestern frustration through rhythmically driven heaviness.
A Dying God merges black metal with grindcore from London since 2013, creating a volatile collision of atmospheric darkness and breakneck speed. Their theological-nihilist name captures the cosmic scale of their sonic devastation.
Tampa, Florida doom metal project. The name captures doom metal's essential preoccupation — the slow extinguishing of consciousness — from the city that knows extreme music best.
Alabama death metal project whose lengthy name targets religious charlatanism in the Bible Belt. The image of a well-dressed deceiver cuts deep in the Deep South.
Boston black metal project named after parasitic jawless fish. The revolting, primordial imagery channels New England's dark maritime history.
Seattle death metal project. The oxymoronic name — a plague that thrives — captures death metal's paradox of creating beauty from destruction.
Jersey City, New Jersey black metal project. The industrial imagery of artificial light in the shadow of Manhattan adds urban dimension to black metal's darkness.
A Forest of Dreams channels atmospheric black metal and ambient from an undisclosed Portuguese location since 2020. Their sylvan-oneiric name drives compositions that blur the boundary between nocturnal forest wandering and dream states.
A Forest of Stars invented "Steam Powered Black Metal" in Leeds in 2007, fusing Victorian aesthetics with psychedelic black metal, folk, and electronica to create something truly unique. Cited as one of the UK's leading avant-garde black metal outfits, their albums from "The Corpse of Rebirth" onward incorporate violins, flutes, and ethereal female vocals alongside the psychedelic madness influenced by Fleurety, Swans, and Pink Floyd.
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