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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
The Interior Wilderness (Drumcorps Remix) (2023)
06/19 @ Brooklyn Bowl - Nashville, Nashville
Featured Groove Metal Album
The Jester Race (Black Ash-Inheritance Version) (2022)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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Stockholm melodic black/heavy metal act formed in 2020, blending the atmospheric intensity of black metal with heavy metal's melodic power. Their cross-genre approach creates a sound both dark and anthemic.
Tulsa's Cirkus blends Southern metal swagger with heavy groove, delivering thick riffs and a road-worn attitude rooted in Oklahoma's hard rock underground. Their music is equal parts dirt and electricity.
Melodic death-doom metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2019. They weave melancholic melodies through crushing death-doom foundations.
Thrash metal band from Wrocław, formed in 2025. Cirograph brings fresh thrash aggression to the Lower Silesian scene.
Thrash metal band from Montana, Bulgaria, active since 2013. They deliver fierce thrash metal from northwestern Bulgaria, a region better known for agriculture than extreme music.
Gothic progressive metal band from 's-Hertogenbosch, active since 1999. Cirrha Niva has spent over a quarter century crafting atmospheric, emotionally rich progressive metal from North Brabant.
Thrash metal band from Tarbes in the French Pyrenees, formed in 2014. They deliver aggressive thrash from the mountain foothills.
Pennsylvania brutal death metal unit Cirrhosis grind through dense, low-tuned punishment with relentless double-bass precision and guttural vocal devastation. They keep the approach surgical and the results crushing.
Plant City, Florida's Cirrhosis channel the corrosive energy of classic death/thrash into punishing modern form, bridging the raw aggression of the genre's Florida roots with thrash's speed and spite.
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