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Featured Album
Irrational Pull (2020)
Featured Doom Metal Album
Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Featured Metalcore Album
The Powerless Rise (2010)
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Seattle doom, post-metal, and sludge metal band crafting expansive, heavy soundscapes rooted in desolation and slow-building tension. Cycles of the Damned draws from the Pacific Northwest's introspective and heavy musical heritage.
Thrash metal band from Vilvoorde, Belgium, active since 2022. They carry forward the legacy of Belgian thrash in the Flemish Brabant region with ferocious, high-speed riffing.
Denver death metal band dealing in guttural, unrefined brutality from the Colorado underground. Cyclonusfilth strips death metal down to its most primal and filthy core.
Heavy and power metal band from Sørvik in northern Norway, active since 2000. Cyclophonia has delivered over two decades of melodic metal from the Nordland coast.
Progressive metal band from Varaždin, Croatia, active since 2010. Cyclops explores complex arrangements and technical musicianship within the Croatian metal scene.
Black-death metal band from Aberdeen, Scotland, formed in 2020. They fuse extreme metal darkness from the Granite City.
Death metal band from Chatellerault in the Vienne, France, active since 2008. They deliver crushing death metal from the central-western French countryside.
Experimental technical death metal band from Munich, Germany, active since 1997. With nearly three decades of innovative activity, Cyclotron push death metal boundaries through avant-garde structures and technical virtuosity.
Los Angeles crossover thrash and hardcore band blending the velocity of thrash metal with the aggression and attitude of hardcore punk. Cycotic Youth channels Southern California's storied crossover tradition with raw, energetic ferocity.
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