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Manual Manic Procedures (2024)
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Leaders Not Followers: Part 2 (2024)
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Los Angeles-based Crom cast an unusually wide net across doom, sludge, grind, power, and thrash, resulting in a chaotic and unpredictable strain of heavy music from the SoCal underground.
Black metal band from London, formed in 2015. Named after a dark figure of Irish mythology, Crom Dubh craft atmospheric, ritualistic black metal from the English capital.
Raleigh doom/sludge duo CroMagnon wield low-tuned, prehistoric heaviness — primitive in tone but deliberate in execution, drawing on the slow-burn intensity of the Southern metal underground.
Death metal act from Borlänge in Dalarna, active since 2012. Cromb delivers crushing death metal from the Swedish heartland.
Minneapolis-based Cromlech straddle the boundary between death metal, thrash, and nu metal, reflecting the diverse influences of the Minnesota heavy music scene in the late 90s and early 2000s.
Arlington Heights, Illinois black/death band Cromlech traffic in cold, dissonant extremity rooted in the uncompromising traditions of underground Midwestern metal.
Black metal project from Austria, formed in 2021. They channel the darkness and intensity of traditional black metal with an underground ethos, maintaining an air of mystery around the project.
Technical death metal act from Slagharen in Overijssel, formed in 2021. Cromm Cruac — named after an Irish pagan deity — delivers intricate death metal from rural eastern Netherlands.
Blackened thrash act from Catania, Sicily, active since 2013. Cromìa Oscura — Italian for 'dark hue' — channels dark aggression from beneath Mount Etna.
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