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Featured Album
Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
The Bestiary (2025)
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The Flesh Prevails (10 Year Edition) [2024 Remaster] (2024)
06/20 @ The Ramkat, Winston-Salem
Featured Metalcore Album
Dial Tone (2022)
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Brutal death metal and grindcore act from Schwyz, Switzerland, active since 2013. Their sound delivers ultra-low guttural vocals, slamming riffs, and blast-beat-driven brutality recorded at Sourmash Studios.
Grindcore act from Ivanovo, formed in 2024. Clit'n'Slit delivers raw, provocative grinding extremity.
Grindcore act from Helden in Limburg, active since 2000. Cliteater has been a fixture of the Dutch extreme underground for a quarter century of relentless grindcore.
Goregrind-turned-grindcore act from Alba Iulia launched in 2024, delivering rapid-fire extremity from the heart of Transylvania. Their evolution from gore-focused grinding to broader grindcore reflects a maturing sonic vision.
Brutal death-grindcore band from Strasbourg, France, active since 2013. They deliver punishing, abrasive extremity from the Alsatian capital.
Death metal and grindcore band from Aschaffenburg, Germany, formed in 2024. They deliver chaotic, abrasive extremity from the Franconian edge of Bavaria.
Cloak formed in Atlanta, Georgia in 2013, founded by Scott Taysom and Sean Bruneau as a reaction to what they saw as a lack of dark, dangerous heavy music in the local scene. Signed to Season of Mist and later Metal Blade Records, the band combines traditional heavy metal structures with black metal atmospherics, black and roll energy, and gothic rock mood, citing Dissection, Deep Purple, and Fields of the Nephilim as core influences. Their third album Black Flame Eternal appeared in 2023.
Swedish heavy metal act active since 2009, delivering classic riff-driven energy with a traditional metal sensibility. Their enduring commitment to the craft speaks to heavy metal's timeless appeal.
Los Angeles heavy metal outfit Cloak Creature bring a lurking, shadowy energy to the LA metal scene, drawing on classic heavy metal tradition filtered through the city's expansive underground. Their music is riff-driven and deliberate, favoring menace over flash.
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