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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
Featured Black Metal Album
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
Featured Grindcore Album
The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Spanish black/death metal and grindcore band from Cantabria, formed in 2017. They merge extreme metal's darkest currents with grindcore's explosive intensity from northern Spain.
French heavy/power metal band from Neuilly-Saint-Front in Picardy, formed in 2015. They deliver classic heavy and power metal from northern France.
Finnish black metal band active since 2004. With over two decades of frosty output, they channel Finnish black metal's characteristic coldness and atmosphere.
German melodic death/power metal band from Düsseldorf, formed in 2021. They blend the melodic sensibility of power metal with the aggression of melodic death metal.
Black metal project from Sofia, Bulgaria, active since 2014. Named after the literary sorcerer, they forge dark, atmospheric black metal from the Bulgarian capital.
Raw black metal band from the woods outside Leuven, Belgium, performing what they call "Zwart metael." Their 2021 album "Ceremonie voor den Boze" spans nearly an hour of Flemish-language black metal with tracks invoking dark medieval themes.
Piotrków Trybunalski-based symphonic metal act active since 2015, building their sound on lush orchestral arrangements, soaring vocals, and cinematic compositions. Their music draws from the European symphonic metal tradition of epic, larger-than-life heavy music.
Czech thrash/death metal band from Prague, formed in 2012. They channel aggressive thrash and death metal with punishing rhythms and relentless intensity.
Thrash metal and crossover band from São Paulo, Brazil, active from 2012 until their split-up. Rooted in the São Paulo scene's affinity for American-style crossover thrash, Belial played fast, aggressive music at the intersection of metal and hardcore punk, in the tradition of the city's long-running street-level extreme underground.
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