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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Playlist: The Very Best of Corrosion of Conformity (2010)
06/10 @ The Dome London, London
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Savage Imperial Death March (2026)
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Black metal band from Princeton, Indiana formed in 2006, working themes of death, mysticism, and spectral energies into their underground output. The band remains independent and active within the small but persistent Indiana extreme metal community.
Black metal band from Jyvaskyla, Finland, formed in 2019. They craft dark, atmospheric black metal from the Finnish lake district.
Death metal band from Tampa, Florida drawing on the fertile legacy of Florida's world-famous death metal scene. The band remains independent, part of a long tradition of extreme metal acts emerging from the Tampa Bay area.
Black metal act from Raleigh, North Carolina working in the underground tradition of raw and atmospheric American black metal. The band operates within the growing North Carolina extreme metal community that has produced a range of significant acts over the past two decades.
Thrash metal band from East Lansing, Michigan built around a campy undead monster mythology and a love for old-school speed and aggression, releasing their debut Rise of The Cryptobeast in 2023. The band channels classic thrash with a self-aware horror aesthetic aimed squarely at metal purists tired of trend-chasing.
Death metal band from Hamburg, Germany, formed in 2017. They deliver relentless death metal from the Hanseatic port city.
Death metal band from Meissen in Saxony, Germany, formed in 2023. They channel death metal aggression from the historic porcelain city on the Elbe.
Death metal and grindcore act from Brno, Czech Republic, formed in 2020. They channel the Moravian capital's rich extreme metal heritage through a blend of grinding blasts and guttural death metal.
Groove-thrash metal band from Toulouse, France, formed in 2016. They combine heavy grooves with thrash aggression from the Pink City.
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