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Featured Album
People Watching (2024)
Featured Groove Metal Album
L'Enfant Sauvage (Special Edition) (2012)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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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Death-thrash metal band from Hanover, Germany, formed in 2014. They deliver a fierce blend of death metal brutality and thrash metal velocity from Lower Saxony's capital.
Fresno doom and sludge metal band dredging up slow, corrosive heaviness from California's Central Valley underground — suffocating riffs, tortured vocals, and a deliberately punishing pace.
Legendary Italian grindcore act from Asti, Piedmont, with Bandcamp activity since 2012 but a history stretching back to the early 1990s. Cripple Bastards are one of Italy's most influential and prolific extreme acts.
Providence, Rhode Island black metal act rooted in the raw, misanthropic tradition of the genre — sparse production, corrosive riffs, and an unflinching embrace of the underground.
Founded in Bristol in 2004 by Justin Greaves, a veteran of Iron Monkey and Electric Wizard, Crippled Black Phoenix is a sprawling, ever-shifting collective whose music resists easy categorization — roaming across post-rock, dark folk, psychedelia, and progressive rock in epic, elegiac compositions the band themselves call "endtime ballads." With a revolving cast of nearly thirty members and a string of ambitious albums including I, Vigilante (2012) and Ellengæst (2020), they have carved out an indelible space in adventurous heavy music as one of the UK's most singular and emotionally resonant ensembles.
Crossover thrash and power-thrash act from Budapest, active since 2009. Crippled Fox combines high-speed thrash riffing with punk energy and melodic power metal elements.
Minneapolis technical death metal and deathcore band pushing the boundaries of extreme metal precision, combining punishing breakdowns with labyrinthine compositional complexity.
Death metal band from eastern Finland, active since 2013. They deliver crushing death metal from the remote Finnish countryside.
Black-sludge metal band from Scotland, formed in 2023. They fuse black metal darkness with sludge metal's oppressive weight.
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