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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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New York thrash band Crucial Fix operate in the aggressive, street-level tradition that the state's metal underground has long cultivated. Their music leans hard on speed, tight riffs, and a combative attitude rooted in the local scene.
Los Angeles crossover thrash act Crucial Fix blur the line between metal and hardcore with breakneck riffing, short punishing songs, and the kinetic energy of a pit mentality. Their Southern California base informs a raw, sun-scorched aggression.
New York's Crucial Hate operate at the extreme end of the death/grind spectrum, delivering short, savage bursts of blasting drums and guttural riffing that leave little room for breath. Brutality and brevity are the defining virtues.
Richmond, Virginia's Crucial Rip combine death metal's technical brutality with deathcore's breakdown-driven heaviness into a punishing and visceral sound. The band channels the aggressive spirit of the Richmond metal scene into dense, relentless music.
Technical Progressive Heavy Metal out of Texas.
Death metal band from the English Midlands, active since 2009. Cruciamentum are one of the most respected bands in the UK death metal underground, known for their cavernous, atmospheric approach to the genre.
Eugene, Oregon's Cruciation work the blackened death metal vein with a cold, deliberate ferocity, merging black metal's dissonant atmosphere with death metal's rhythmic punishment. The Pacific Northwest band brings a raw, underground authenticity to the style.
Boston blackened death act Cruciatu draw from both sides of the extreme metal divide, pairing black metal's icy, tremolo-driven hostility with death metal's suffocating low-end density. The band operates firmly in the underground tradition of the Northeast.
Black metal band from Neuss, Germany, formed in 2014. They channel dark intensity through atmospheric black metal from the Lower Rhine.
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