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Featured Album
Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Liars & Thieves (2024)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
06/11 @ Rebellion Manchester, Manchester
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Sonic German Beatdown (Live in Germany) (2009)
06/11 @ The Grand At The Complex, Salt Lake City
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Columbus, Ohio's Crowtalker wallow in the slow, heavy interplay between doom and stoner metal, layering fuzz-drenched riffs over plodding rhythms that settle deep into the bones. Their sound favors atmosphere and sustained weight over aggression.
Bloomington, Indiana's Crowtein occupy an unlikely but exhilarating crossroads between grindcore's frenzied blasting and power metal's soaring grandeur. The collision of extremes makes for an unpredictable, high-energy listening experience.
Janesville, Wisconsin doom act Crowthorn traffic in the genre's most fundamental pleasures — massive down-tuned riffs, funereal pacing, and a pervasive air of gloom. Their single-minded focus on heaviness and atmosphere keeps the music dense and immersive.
Doom metal band from London, formed in 2022. They craft slow, crushing doom from the English capital.
Progressive death-thrash act from Yaroslavl on the Volga, formed in 2020. Crrombid Traxorm delivers technically-ambitious extreme metal from the Golden Ring city.
Columbus thrash act CRS play straight-ahead, riff-forward metal in the classic Bay Area and Midwest tradition, prioritizing speed, tightness, and neck-snapping rhythm guitar work. Ohio's fertile thrash scene has sharpened their no-frills approach.
Crua-chan is a stoner/doom metal band from Buenos Aires, Argentina, featuring Christian Garis on drums, Jorge Patiño on bass and vocals, and David Dos on guitar and vocals. The trio released a seven-track self-titled album in 2018, blending crushing riffs with psychedelic textures and unconventional instrumentation.
Eight-piece folk metal ensemble from Prague, Czech Republic, formed in 2011. Self-described as Prague motherfuckers, Cruadalach blend violins, flutes, and shawms with harsh vocals and hardcore intensity, exploring themes of true human existence across releases like Raised By Wolves.
Progressive metal act from Warsaw, formed in 2020. Crucial Comma explores intricate compositional structures from the Polish capital.
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