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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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German post-metal band from Stuttgart, formed in 2018. They craft expansive, dynamic post-metal soundscapes with emotional weight and atmospheric depth.
Bodhum is a death metal and grindcore band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, active since 2010. The band debuted with the EP "Sobre Homens E Porcos" in 2010 and has since released additional albums including "Causa Mortis", "Consórcio da Morte", and "Extremo". They participated in the 2020 Brazilian tribute compilation "A Brazilian Tribute To Nasum: Mieszko Lives", released through The Grind Records.
Liverpool-based doom/sludge outfit active since 2015, dragging their compositions through a swamp of distortion, feedback, and crushing tempos. Their sound sits at the punishing intersection where doom metal's patience meets sludge's confrontational aggression.
Emerging in 2016 from Schoonhoven, this death metal act channels the genre's primal aggression through tight, riff-driven compositions. Their recordings carry the unmistakable weight of classic death metal.
Doom/sludge metal act from Brighton, formed in 2021. Their music lurches forward with deliberate, oppressive weight, burying the listener beneath layers of corroded guitar tone.
Drawing from the contemplative side of black metal, this British project channels Wales's spirit into sweeping, atmosphere-laden compositions. Since 2024, their recordings balance raw aggression with passages of fragile, melancholic beauty.
Finnish melodic death/power metal band from Helsinki, formed in 2021. Founded by the late Alexi Laiho as his project after Children of Bodom, they continue his legacy of virtuosic melodic extreme metal.
Uncompromising death metal from Brighton, active since 2021. Their material trades in the genre's heaviest traditions: cavernous vocals, churning guitar work, and percussion that hits with tectonic force.
Omsk-based thrash metal act active since 2019, delivering riff-driven aggression rooted in the genre's foundational principles of speed, precision, and relentless energy. Their material channels the spirit of 1980s thrash through a Russian filter.
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