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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Playlist: The Very Best of Corrosion of Conformity (2010)
06/11 @ Rebellion Manchester, Manchester
Featured Grindcore Album
Savage Imperial Death March (2026)
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Funeral doom metal band from Seville, Spain, formed in 2022. They craft glacially slow, oppressively heavy doom from the Andalusian capital.
Melodic death metal band from Ahtari, Finland, active since 2010. They craft cold, melodic death metal from the rural Finnish heartland.
Melodic black metal project from Hungary, formed in 2022. Cryonus delivers icy, melodic black metal with atmospheric undertones.
Death metal project from Zagreb, formed in 2021. Cryopathic Thanatology explores morbid themes through clinical, pathology-informed brutality.
Atmospheric black metal project from Russia, formed in 2023. Cryophobia channels frigid, expansive black metal.
Progressive death metal band from Paris, France, active since 2010. They merge progressive complexity with death metal intensity from the French capital.
Death-thrash act from Karlshamn in Blekinge, formed in 2017. Cryoshock delivers sharp, aggressive extreme metal from Sweden's southeastern coast.
Blackened symphonic heavy metal project from Vienna, Austria, formed in 2017. They merge the grandeur of symphonic arrangements with the darkness of black metal and the power of traditional heavy metal into an ambitious, layered sound.
Boston's Cryostasium fuse black metal atmospherics with cold industrial textures, constructing bleak, machine-like soundscapes. Their recordings feel deliberately frozen and desolate, blending organic and synthetic elements into a single oppressive mass.
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