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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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Gulfport, Mississippi death-doom band conjuring Lovecraftian dread through slow, crushing riffs and deep, cavernous atmosphere drawn from occultist themes and ritualistic horror.
Founded by ex-Cattle Decapitation bassist Troy Oftedal, Cave Bastard forge a savage hybrid of death metal, sludge, and hardcore from San Diego with relentless abrasive heaviness.
Black, heavy, and speed metal band from Turnov, Czech Republic, active since 2013. Their sound fuses first-wave black metal darkness with the velocity of speed metal and the power of traditional heavy metal.
Heavy metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2021. They deliver classic heavy metal from the Finnish capital.
Brutal death metal act from Smederevo, Serbia, formed in 2025. Cave Disease brings fresh brutality to the Serbian death metal scene.
Phoenix black/death/sludge project combining sludge-drenched atmosphere with raw black metal aggression, firmly situated in the underground extreme metal tradition.
Asheville, North Carolina death metal act delivering decrepit, filthy death metal with a cavernous, putrid aesthetic rooted in the ugliest traditions of the genre.
Folk metal band from Cergy near Paris, France, emerging in 2025. They blend folk instrumentation with heavy metal energy.
Cave In formed in Methuen, Massachusetts in 1995, beginning as a metalcore act before undergoing one of the more dramatic stylistic evolutions in underground heavy music, shifting from the technical aggression of Until Your Heart Stops (1998) to the sprawling space-rock of Jupiter (2000). They signed to RCA Records and released the alternative rock-oriented Antenna in 2003, then went on hiatus in 2006 before reforming in 2009 and returning to heavier territory. The band remains active and is regarded as a key bridge between hardcore, progressive rock, and post-metal.
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