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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)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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Symphonic metal band from Birmingham, England, formed in 2019. They create grand, orchestral metal from the birthplace of heavy metal.
One-man atmospheric black metal project from Vienna, founded in 2024 by the artist known as Oblivion. Their debut EP 'Fall of Dying Lights' explores cosmic isolation and celestial themes, blending icy black metal with vast, space-inspired atmospheres.
Power metal band from Seinajoki, Finland, emerging in 2025. They deliver melodic, high-energy power metal from the Ostrobothnian plains.
Cell-13 from Albuquerque combines the slow, oppressive weight of doom metal with the gritty, blues-influenced heaviness of traditional heavy metal, rooted in the Sabbathian tradition filtered through the desert Southwest. Their sound is measured and heavy, built on massive riff cycles and a smoldering atmosphere.
Cell Block Earth brings Detroit's industrial grit to groove metal, delivering heavy, syncopated riff patterns and a mechanistic rhythmic drive that reflects the city's working-class metal heritage. Their sound owes debts to Pantera and Machine Head while retaining a Motor City bluntness.
Cell Death is a grindcore band from Richmond, Virginia, delivering short, savage blasts rooted in the powerviolence and hardcore punk traditions that have long defined the Richmond extreme music underground.
Cell Intruder is a death metal band from Louisville, Kentucky, trading in the churning, downtuned riff structures and guttural vocal delivery of old-school American death metal, with a murky, mid-paced approach that favors atmosphere and groove over speed.
Groove metal and metalcore band from Wiesbaden, Germany, formed in 2017. They deliver heavy, rhythmic grooves layered with metalcore dynamics and breakdowns.
Folk and symphonic metal band from Hanover, Germany, formed in 2015. They blend traditional folk instrumentation with symphonic orchestration and heavy metal energy.
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