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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
Featured Groove Metal Album
Soundtrack to Your Escape (The Quiet Place Version) (2022)
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Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Sinner (Unlucky 13th Anniversary Deluxe Edition / Bonus Commentary / Disc Two) (2015)
06/18 @ De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea
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Symphonic black-doom metal band from England, formed in 2022. They weave symphonic grandeur through darkened doom-black metal.
Speed metal act from Varberg on the Swedish west coast, active since 2016. Countenance delivers high-velocity traditional metal from Halland.
Death metal act from Giżycko in the Masurian Lake District, formed in 2020. Counter.faith delivers crushing death metal from one of Poland's most scenic northeastern regions.
Sanford, Florida thrash band Counterattack play straight-forward, riff-driven metal in the Bay Area tradition — fast picking, aggressive drumming, and no patience for filler. They're a reliable fixture in Florida's underground thrash circuit.
Death-doom-industrial act from Jönköping in Småland, formed in 2018. Counterblast merges multiple extreme subgenres from the Småland highlands.
Indianapolis speed/thrash act CounterClockwise channel classic 80s metal energy with high-velocity riffs and no-nonsense aggression. Their sound is rooted in the purist tradition of bands like Exodus and Overkill.
Heavy metal band from Cwmbran in South Wales, formed in 2019. They deliver classic heavy metal from the Welsh valleys.
Groove-thrash act from Kovin in the Banat region, formed in 2026. CounterIgnition represents the newest wave of Serbian thrash metal.
CounterParts is a melodic heavy metal band from Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, operating as an independent act. The band explores themes of literature, struggle, religion, and Nordic mythology within a melodic metal framework. Their discography includes the album "A Dreamer Betrayed," recorded and mixed at Basement Studios and mastered in São Paulo.
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