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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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Finnish death metal band formed in 2017. They deliver blooming, putrid death metal from the Finnish underground.
French brutal death metal band from Paris, active since 2001. With over two decades of brutality, they are a seasoned force in Parisian death metal.
Progressive metal supergroup from San Antonio. Ron Jarzombek, Alex Webster, Hannes Grossmann.
Black metal project from Kumla, emerging in 2013. Their compositions draw from the wellspring of second-wave Scandinavian tradition while filtering it through the cultural context of their Swedish origins.
Funeral doom entity from Oslo, formed in 2002. Their compositions unfold over vast stretches of time, building cavernous walls of distorted guitar that press down with the weight of a collapsing universe.
German hardcore punk and black metal band from the Wetterau-Offenbach area, formed in 2022. They fuse hardcore punk's confrontational energy with black metal's dark intensity.
French heavy/thrash metal band from Aix-en-Provence, active since 2009. They deliver retaliatory heavy and thrash metal from sun-drenched Provence.
Melodic death/thrash metal and crossover band from Nyon, Switzerland, active since 2014. They blend melodic death metal hooks with thrash and crossover energy from the shores of Lake Geneva.
Mezzolombardo (Trento)-based southern metal act active since 2014, injecting blues-influenced swagger and whiskey-soaked groove into their heavy, riff-driven sound. Their music channels the spirit of American Southern rock and metal through a Italian perspective.
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