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Featured Album
People Watching (2024)
Featured Groove Metal Album
L'Enfant Sauvage (Special Edition) (2012)
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The Necrotic Manifesto (Bonus Tracks Edition) (2023)
11/14 @ The Majestic Ventura Theater, Ventura
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Among the Shadows (2024)
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Heavy and power metal band from Wrocław, active since 2010. Crimson Valley channels classic European power metal from the capital of Lower Silesia.
Crushing Progressive Doom Metal from Houston.
Symphonic power metal band from Palermo, Sicily, active since 2011. Crimson Wind delivers soaring melodies and orchestral bombast from Italy's largest island.
Springfield, Massachusetts symphonic metal band layering sweeping orchestral arrangements over heavy guitar foundations, bringing a cinematic grandeur to the New England metal underground.
Melodic death-metalcore act from Moscow, active since 2014. CrimSun blends melodic hooks with modern extreme metal from the Russian capital.
Lincoln Park, Michigan groove and thrash band fusing mid-tempo, headbang-ready groove riffs with thrash's caustic bite, rooted firmly in the blue-collar Michigan metal tradition.
Death metal act from Pordenone in Friuli, formed in 2020. Criogenesi — Italian for 'cryogenesis' — brings icy death metal to northeastern Italy.
Criogenia is a heavy/thrash metal band from Caseros, in the Buenos Aires province of Argentina, with roots stretching back to the early 2000s. They released the EP "Almas del mundo" featuring tracks including "Siempre presente" and "Salvaje", followed by the full-length "Even Worst" in 2009, building a body of work in the tradition of Argentine underground metal.
Thrash metal band from Prelouc, Czech Republic, active since 1996. With nearly three decades of activity, Crionic are seasoned veterans of the Czech thrash scene.
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