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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
06/09 @ Warehouse SWG3, Glasgow
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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New Orleans's Cultum Nocte apply the Crescent City's longstanding tradition of extreme, ritualistic metal to a black/death framework, producing music that carries the oppressive humidity and occult atmosphere of their surroundings. The Louisiana band operates as part of a local underground that has always thrived at metal's most uncompromising edges.
Heavy metal band from Sula on Norway's western coast, formed in 2018. Cultural Abomination brings traditional metal to the remote island communities of Møre og Romsdal.
Oakland's Cultural Warfare are Bay Area thrash purists who extend the region's golden-era legacy into the modern era through melodic, powerful songwriting anchored by Jacques Serrano's forceful vocals. Their 2018 debut full-length Warmageddon, produced by Juan Urteaga and released on M-Theory Audio, is a sharp, road-tested declaration of Bay Area allegiance.
Houston experimental punk. Notorious for overdubbing satirical punk vocals onto popular radio hits.
San Antonio technical death metal/deathcore. Precision brutality.
Relentless Melodic Black Metal from Brownsville.
Los Angeles duo Cultus Profano — Advorsus and Strzyga — channel pure Satanic black metal with an emphasis on furious, melodic riffing that balances ferocity and craft. Signed to Debemur Morti Productions, their albums Sacramentum Obscurus (2018) and Accursed Possession (2020) established them as one of Southern California's most formidable black metal acts.
Gothic black doom act from Milan, one of Italy's veteran extreme metal bands with origins in 1995. Cultus Sanguine — Latin for 'cult of blood' — has spent three decades crafting dark, atmospheric metal that bridges gothic, black, and doom traditions.
Death-thrash band from Västerås, formed in 2018. Culverin — named after a type of cannon — delivers explosive extreme metal from the Mälaren Valley.
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