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People Watching (2024)
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L'Enfant Sauvage (Special Edition) (2012)
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The Necrotic Manifesto (Bonus Tracks Edition) (2023)
11/14 @ The Majestic Ventura Theater, Ventura
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Among the Shadows (2024)
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Seattle death metal band delivering crushing, riff-driven brutality rooted in classic death metal traditions, consistent with the Pacific Northwest's heritage of no-frills extreme metal.
Death metal band from Erfurt, Germany, emerging in 2025. They bring fresh brutality to the Thuringian metal underground.
Death metal and grindcore band from Barcelona, Spain, emerging in 2025. They deliver abrasive, grinding extremity from the Catalan underground.
Melodic death metal band from Naestved, Denmark, emerging in 2025. They blend melodic sensibilities with death metal aggression from the southern Zealand city.
Auburn, New Hampshire traditional heavy metal band drawing from the classic early-1980s American metal and NWOBHM blueprint, emphasizing melody, power, and unadorned song craft.
Cavalera is the continuing collaboration between Max and Iggor Cavalera, the brothers who founded Sepultura and helped push Brazilian extreme metal from underground violence into worldwide influence. Their work together has always been rooted in rhythm, riff, and impact: Max's barked vocals and serrated guitar attack locked against Iggor's unmistakable drumming, which can feel tribal, punk-fast, and mechanically heavy at once. After years of separate paths, the brothers reunited through Cavalera Conspiracy and later shortened the name as their focus turned increasingly toward the earliest Sepultura material. Recent Cavalera releases revisit Bestial Devastation, Morbid Visions, and Schizophrenia through full re-recordings, not as nostalgia pieces but as attempts to give those primitive thrash, death-thrash, and proto-blackened songs the power the brothers felt they always had live. Current sets often center on that early Sepultura era, with the band presenting the material as living extreme metal: raw, fast, percussive, and still connected to the restless force that made the original records matter.
The reunited Cavalera brothers, Max and Igor, channeling the primal groove metal and thrash ferocity of mid-era Sepultura into a project recalling the visceral, tribal heaviness of Arise and Chaos A.D.
Groove metal and metalcore band from Vitoria-Gasteiz in the Basque Country, Spain, active since 2013. They blend heavy grooves with metalcore dynamics from the Basque capital.
Melodic blackened death metal act from Tula, south of Moscow, active since 2010. Cavandish has spent over fifteen years crafting melody-infused extreme metal from the historic arms-making city.
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