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Featured Album
Slave to the Scalpel (2021)
Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Sinner (Unlucky 13th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (2014)
06/17 @ G Live Guildford, Guildford
Featured Groove Metal Album
The Jester Race (Black Ash-Inheritance Version) (2022)
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Melodic death metal band from Nicosia, Cyprus, formed in 2019. They craft melodic yet aggressive death metal shaped by the Mediterranean island's small but dedicated extreme metal scene.
Progressive doom-heavy metal band from Stuttgart, Germany, formed in 2018. They blend the crushing weight of doom with progressive complexity and classic heavy metal power.
San Francisco's Cretaceous pull from both the Bay Area thrash tradition and the brutal extremity of death metal to forge a sound rooted in prehistoric heaviness. Their music evokes the crushing force of geological time and mass extinction.
San Jose's Cretin are a grind/death institution fronted by vocalist Marissa Martinez, one of the most distinctive voices in the underground. Their music is whiplash-fast and viciously articulate, earning a devoted following since the early 2000s.
Death metal band from Halmstad on the Swedish west coast, active since 2005. Cretoria has spent two decades crafting death metal from the Halland coast.
Los Angeles black metal act Crevasse craft bleak, frost-bitten compositions in the underground tradition, filtering darkness through an urban Southern California lens. Their work pursues raw atmosphere over polish or accessibility.
Houston's Crevasse dive into the slow, psychedelic depths of stoner and doom metal with a warmth and heaviness shaped by the Texas heat. Their fuzz-heavy riffs crawl and expand with the patience of the Gulf Coast underground.
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Sludge metal band from Helsinki, Finland, active since 2009. They deliver thick, oppressive sludge from the Finnish capital.
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