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Featured Album
Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
Featured Groove Metal Album
Soundtrack to Your Escape (The Quiet Place Version) (2022)
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Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
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Melodic death-doom act from Kisvárda in northeastern Hungary, active since 2013. Crowhill Tales blends sorrowful melodies with crushing doom and death metal weight.
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Stoner metal band from Gothenburg, active since 2015. Crowlegion delivers heavy, fuzzed-out grooves from Sweden's metal capital.
Death metal and grindcore band from Cantabria, Spain, formed in 2021. They deliver grinding extremity from the northern Spanish coast.
Heavy-thrash metal band from Avignon, France, formed in 2014. They blend classic heavy metal with thrash aggression from the Provençal city of the Popes.
Memphis' Crowlord plants doom and sludge metal deep in Tennessee soil, drawing from both traditions to deliver slow, crushing music that carries the weight of the Delta. Their sound is as heavy as the city's history.
Sludge-thrash metal band from Versailles, France, formed in 2016. They merge sludge weight with thrash aggression from the Parisian suburbs.
Progressive metal act from Amstelveen near Amsterdam, formed in 2021. Crown Compass crafts intricate, melodic progressive metal.
Buffalo's Crown Conscious blends the technical complexity of progressive metal with the ferocity of death metal, constructing songs that shift between intricate passages and all-out brutality. They're one of Western New York's more cerebral extreme metal acts.
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