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Actin' Up (2023)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Green Man Rising (Demo) (2017)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Massachusetts heavy metal act bringing a hard-nosed, no-nonsense approach to the genre — direct songwriting, thick riffs, and an unembellished heaviness grounded in the New England scene.
Salt Lake City heavy metal band forging their sound against the backdrop of Utah's isolated underground, delivering straightforward, hard-hitting metal with a desert-dry intensity.
Death-grind act from Bari in Puglia, formed in 2017. Crisis Benoit blasts through grinding death metal from southern Italy's Adriatic coast.
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.
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