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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)
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Death-thrash act from the Cadore mountain towns of Lorenzago and Vigo in Belluno province, formed in 2017. Corte de Grasa delivers extreme metal from deep in the Dolomite Alps.
Portland, OR death/grind act that keeps things short, brutal, and to the point. They fuse the clinical ferocity of death metal with the breakneck pace of grindcore.
Progressive metal act from Moscow, formed in 2017. Cortex Impulse explores intricate compositional structures from the Russian capital.
Boston doom and stoner metal band that builds massive, slow-rolling riffs on a foundation of fuzz and psychedelia. Their music has the density of stone and the haze of desert heat.
Black-thrash metal band from Vigo, Spain, formed in 2019. They fuse black metal darkness with thrash aggression from the Galician Atlantic coast.
New York death doom band that moves between sepulchral dirges and bursts of death metal aggression. Their songs carry real emotional weight, steeped in despair and murky heaviness.
Progressive metal act from Sofia, Bulgaria, formed in 2016. They craft intricate compositions that blend technical precision with dynamic songwriting across shifting time signatures and moods.
Corubo is a black metal and ambient band from Ji-Paraná, Rondônia, Brazil, who describe their sound as "Indigenous Black Metal," weaving atmospheric black metal with indigenous Brazilian folk influences, field recordings, and lyrics in languages including Guaraní, Nheengatu, Tupi, and Portuguese. Their music explores the history and resistance of Brazil's indigenous peoples, drawing on themes of colonisation and the Amazon's First Nations cultures. Their 2021 album Ajuricaba is centered on the Manaus people's wars of resistance against Portuguese enslavement in the early 18th century, named after their leader Ajuricaba.
Heavy metal project from Portugal, active since 2015. Coruja — Portuguese for 'owl' — delivers traditional metal with nocturnal themes.
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