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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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Queens, New York groove and heavy metal act carrying the borough's working-class grit through heavy mid-tempo riffs and a street-hardened edge forged in the New York underground.
Metalcore band from Stuttgart, Germany, active since 2001. With over two decades of activity, Crisis Never Ends are among the longest-running metalcore acts in the Swabian capital.
Metalcore outfit from Sofia, Bulgaria, blending aggressive riffs and crushing breakdowns with melodic vocal passages. Their debut release A Dream Surreal showcases a sound rooted in metalcore, hardcore, and alternative metal influences.
Crust punk, death metal, and grindcore band from Santander in Cantabria, Spain, active since 2011. They fuse the raw fury of crust with grinding death metal extremity.
Thrash metal band from Igualada near Barcelona, Spain, active since 2021. They deliver high-energy, riff-driven thrash from the Catalan interior.
Speed metal band from La Linea de la Concepcion near Gibraltar, Spain, formed in 2014. They channel the velocity and power of classic speed metal from the southernmost tip of mainland Spain.
Progressive metal solo project from Ancona in the Marche region, active since 2022. Cristiano Coppa explores technical and progressive metal composition.
Cristo is a groove/death/thrash metal band from Río Cuarto, Córdoba, Argentina, formed in 2023. The band released a self-titled EP available on their Bandcamp page, carving out a heavy, riff-driven sound within the Córdoba metal scene.
Cristobal Gallardo is a Chilean guitarist who launched his solo instrumental metal project in 2023 with the single "Maldita Tentación," followed by his debut album "A Puro Corazón" in 2024. His playing blends metal technique with Latin melodic influences, citing Marty Friedman, Gary Moore, and Carlos Santana as primary inspirations.
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