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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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Death-groove metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2020. They blend death metal aggression with heavy grooves from the French capital.
Gothic metal band from Marseille, France, active since 1997. With nearly three decades of history, Crimson Garden are veterans of the French gothic metal scene.
Genre-crossing extreme metal band from Herford, Germany, formed in 2019. Crimson Glow blend black metal, death metal, melodic death metal, and thrash into a diverse, aggressive sound.
Lebanon, Oregon heavy metal act rooted in classic metal conviction, wielding chunky riffs and a blue-collar intensity that echoes the Pacific Northwest's underground metal community.
Symphonic metal act from the Rybnik and Wodzisław Śląski area, formed in 2020. Crimson Ice delivers orchestral metal from the Upper Silesian coal basin.
La Mesa, California death-thrash band fusing the technical brutality of death metal with thrash's street-level aggression, resulting in a relentless and uncompromising assault.
Doom and gothic metal band from North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, formed in 2024. They weave melancholic gothic atmospheres over crushing doom metal foundations.
Queens, New York black and doom metal act weaving frigid, dissonant riffs together with suffocating, slow-moving passages in a sound that's as bleak as it is hypnotically heavy.
Miami speed metal outfit channeling the frantic, high-octane energy of the genre's '80s heyday — fast picking, screaming leads, and an unrelenting drive from start to finish.
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