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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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Cellador is a power metal band from Denver, Colorado, known for twin-guitar harmonies, soaring clean vocals, and the fleet-fingered melodic style characteristic of European-influenced American power metal in the tradition of Blind Guardian and Helloween.
Doom and stoner metal band from Aachen, Germany, active since 2014. They deliver thick, fuzz-drenched riffs and heavy grooves rooted in the stoner-doom tradition.
Budapest-based black metal project formed in 2020. Cellar Dweller crafts subterranean, cavernous black metal steeped in darkness and isolation.
Cellar Fluids is a death metal and grindcore band from Savannah, Georgia, blending the gore-obsessed intensity of grind with the downtuned riff structures of death metal for a caustic and deliberately unpolished sound.
Melodic death metal band from Kotka, Finland, formed in 2017. They craft melodic yet aggressive death metal from the southeastern Finnish coast.
Cellar Vessel is a progressive death metal band from Bozeman, Montana, combining the technical complexity and unconventional song structures of progressive metal with the crushing aggression and guttural extremity of death metal.
Dutch thrash metal band formed in 2015. Cellarpigs delivers raw, aggressive thrash with a no-frills approach.
CellarWitch is a Portland, Oregon band operating at the intersection of black metal and brutal death metal, fusing icy tremolo aggression with pulverizing low-end brutality and a chaotic, dissonant approach that resists clean genre categorization.
Heavy metal band from Oldenburg, Germany, formed in 2017. They forge classic heavy metal driven by powerful riffs and traditional metal sensibilities.
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