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Featured Album
Masters of Morbidity (2022)
Featured Power Metal Album
Black Ninja (2013)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Sinner (Unlucky 13th Anniversary Deluxe Edition / Bonus Commentary / Disc Two) (2015)
06/17 @ G Live Guildford, Guildford
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Liars & Thieves (2024)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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Stoner metal act from Saint Petersburg, formed in 2024. Crimson Caravan delivers heavy, fuzzed-out grooves.
Melodic death metal act from Skänninge in Östergötland, formed in 2018. Crimson Carnage delivers the classic Swedish melodeath sound from central Sweden.
Bentonville, Arkansas doom metal outfit conjuring slow, heavy dirges steeped in gothic atmosphere and crushing low-end weight. Their sound evokes crumbling stone and candlelit dread.
Manassas, Virginia outfit blending the melodic grandeur of power metal with the aggression of thrash, delivering anthemic riffs and high-velocity rhythm attacks in equal measure.
New Orleans death metal act drawing on the city's murky musical underbelly, channeling raw brutality through churning riffs and guttural vocal assaults rooted in the swamp.
Heavy metal band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2023. They deliver energetic, riff-driven heavy metal from the Catalan capital.
Doom and heavy metal band from Spain, emerging in 2025. They blend the crushing weight of doom with classic heavy metal hooks.
Blackened death metal project from Moscow, formed in 2025. Crimson Crown channels dark aggression from the Russian capital.
Symphonic power metal act from Moscow, active since 2015. Crimson Cry delivers orchestral grandeur and soaring melodies from the Russian capital.
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