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People Watching (2024)
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L'Enfant Sauvage (Special Edition) (2012)
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The Necrotic Manifesto (Bonus Tracks Edition) (2023)
11/14 @ The Majestic Ventura Theater, Ventura
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Among the Shadows (2024)
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Death-thrash band from Biała Podlaska in eastern Poland, formed in 2023. Crippling Madness brings extreme metal to the Podlasie border region.
Doom metal act from Ravenna, formed in 2021. Cripta Blue — blending crypt imagery with blue melancholy — crafts slow, sorrowful doom from Emilia-Romagna.
Criptal is a heavy metal band from General Pacheco, in the Buenos Aires province of Argentina. Their discography on Metal Archives includes the albums El amanecer de la esperanza and Contra toda tempestad, the latter released in 2014.
Black metal project from Perugia, Umbria, active since 2015. Criptum channels dark, atmospheric black metal from central Italy.
Death-thrash band from Vicenza, active since 2012. Crisalide — Italian for 'chrysalis' — delivers aggressive extreme metal from the Veneto region.
Edmonds, Washington heavy and progressive metal band blending the melodic ambition of progressive music with the muscular authority of traditional heavy metal in the Pacific Northwest.
Massachusetts heavy metal act bringing a hard-nosed, no-nonsense approach to the genre — direct songwriting, thick riffs, and an unembellished heaviness grounded in the New England scene.
Salt Lake City heavy metal band forging their sound against the backdrop of Utah's isolated underground, delivering straightforward, hard-hitting metal with a desert-dry intensity.
Death-grind act from Bari in Puglia, formed in 2017. Crisis Benoit blasts through grinding death metal from southern Italy's Adriatic coast.
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