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Featured Album
Slave to the Scalpel (2021)
Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Sinner (Unlucky 13th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (2014)
06/17 @ G Live Guildford, Guildford
Featured Groove Metal Album
The Jester Race (Black Ash-Inheritance Version) (2022)
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Black metal band from Virrat, Finland, active since 2011. They craft atmospheric, wintry black metal from the remote Finnish countryside.
Atmospheric sludge metal and post-rock quartet from the Waasland region of Belgium, active since 2014. Their debut 'Dageraad,' recorded in the woods of Daknam and released through Consouling Sounds, blends ambient textures with crushing doom and drone.
Death metal band from Marseille, France, formed in 2017. Their name meaning charnel house in French, Charnier deliver putrid death metal from the Mediterranean port city.
Black metal band from the Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes region, France, formed in 2017. Their name meaning carrion in French, Charogne channel decay and darkness through raw black metal.
Englewood's Charon plays thrash metal with the blunt force and speed-obsessed energy that flourished in Florida's scene alongside its more globally recognized death metal movement. Their sound is rooted in classic late-80s thrash without much concession to modern production trends.
Denver's Charon Kruk occupies the blackened death metal space with a sound that is dense, grim, and deliberately claustrophobic. The project leans into ugliness as an aesthetic virtue, favoring atmosphere forged through abrasion.
Heavy metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2022. They deliver classic heavy metal from the Greek capital.
Indianapolis heavy-thrash band Charonyx balances melodic metal songwriting with the propulsive aggression of classic thrash, carving out space in Indiana's often-overlooked underground metal scene. Their riff-driven material reflects a deep reverence for the genre's 1980s touchstones.
South Florida's Charred serves up a punishing blend of death and thrash metal with the sun-scorched brutality typical of the state's extreme metal underground. Their riffs hit with a blunt, relentless force that prioritizes savagery over subtlety.
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