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Featured Album
People Watching (2024)
Featured Groove Metal Album
L'Enfant Sauvage (Special Edition) (2012)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
The Necrotic Manifesto (Bonus Tracks Edition) (2023)
11/14 @ The Majestic Ventura Theater, Ventura
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Among the Shadows (2024)
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Sludge metal outfit from London, formed in 2016. Their music moves with the grinding inevitability of industrial machinery, all corroded tones and barely controlled fury.
Spanish stoner metal and rock band from Valencia, formed in 2019. They channel Conan-inspired stoner metal from the Mediterranean coast.
German thrash metal band from Baden-Baden, formed in 2014. They deliver fast, aggressive thrash metal from the Black Forest spa town.
Thessaloniki-based death/thrash metal act active since 2013, fusing death metal's guttural intensity with thrash's riff-driven velocity and rhythmic precision. Their high-energy approach delivers the heaviness of death metal married to thrash's urgent momentum.
German thrash metal band from North Rhine-Westphalia, formed in 2017. They play straightforward, flesh-ripping thrash metal.
French stoner metal band from Bourg-en-Bresse, formed in 2022. They deliver flowing stoner metal from the Ain department of eastern France.
German death metal band from Nuremberg, formed in 2026. They represent the newest generation of Nuremberg's death metal underground.
Bloody Hammers is a gothic doom duo from Transylvania County, North Carolina, formed in 2012 by singer-songwriter-multi-instrumentalist Anders Manga and keyboardist Devallia, his wife. Named after a Roky Erickson song, the project channels Black Sabbath's heaviness through a gothic and occult rock prism, placing it alongside Ghost and Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats in the early 2010s occult rock revival. After signing to Napalm Records in 2014, the duo released a consistent run of albums through the decade, including Black Magic (2016), The Summoning (2019), and Songs of Unspeakable Terror (2021).
Uncompromising death metal from Mena, active since 2007. Their material trades in the genre's heaviest traditions: cavernous vocals, churning guitar work, and percussion that hits with tectonic force.
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