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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
The Interior Wilderness (Drumcorps Remix) (2023)
06/13 @ Capital City Music Hall, Harrisburg
Featured Groove Metal Album
The Jester Race (Black Ash-Inheritance Version) (2022)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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Power-speed metal band from Valledoria in Sassari province, Sardinia, formed in 2020. Crimson Storm delivers anthemic, high-velocity metal from the Mediterranean island.
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Progressive heavy metal band from Bolzano in South Tyrol, formed in 2019. Crimson Sunset blends progressive complexity with classic metal from the bilingual Alpine border region.
Doom and gothic metal band originally from Hamburg, now based in Freiburg, Germany, active since 2012. They craft melancholic, atmospheric doom infused with dark gothic beauty.
Heavy metal band from Alicante, Spain, emerging in 2025. They channel classic heavy metal power from the Mediterranean coast.
Big Sandy, Texas heavy metal band carrying the lone-star underground tradition with blunt, hard-hitting riffs and a raw, working-class intensity rooted in deep East Texas.
Minneapolis death-thrash band that spent the early '90s fusing brutal death metal aggression with thrash's propulsive energy, leaving behind a fierce legacy in Minnesota's underground.
Black metal band from England, formed in 2017. They deliver dark, intense black metal from the English underground.
Heavy and power metal band from the coastal town of Piombino in Livorno province, active since 2017. Crimson Thunder brings classic European power metal to the Tuscan seaboard.
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