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Featured Album
The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Ad Astra (2025)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Serpent & Spirit (2021)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Make It Rain / On the Other Side of Tonight (2024)
05/15 @ Palladium Times Square, New York City
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Thrash metal band from Lagos in the Algarve, formed in 2020. Cursed Disciples delivers aggressive thrash from Portugal's sun-drenched southern coast.
Thrash metal band from Wicklow, Ireland, active since 2014. Cursed Earth delivers straightforward, riff-driven thrash from the scenic east coast county.
Michigan band from Novi blending power, groove, and thrash metal into a hard-hitting and dynamic sound. Cursed Eternity delivers arena-ready heaviness tempered by aggressive riffing and melodic hooks.
Boston blackened death metal band forging a cold and brutal sound that bridges extreme metal's most punishing subgenres. Cursed for Eternity channels New England's underground intensity into riff-heavy, atmosphere-laced darkness.
Pittsburgh metalcore act channeling the aggressive energy of hardcore and metal into heavy, riff-driven compositions. Cursed Form draws from the Steel City's DIY scene tradition with a sound built on intensity and urgency.
Syracuse death metal band rooted in old-school brutality and unflinching aggression. Cursed from Birth deals in pummeling riff work and guttural vocals drawn from the classic American death metal canon.
Sanford, North Carolina band combining metalcore and thrash metal into an aggressive hybrid sound. Cursed from Birth NC blends hardcore-rooted song structure with the riff-shredding velocity of thrash.
Henderson, Texas death/grind act delivering fast, violent, and purposefully brief sonic assaults. Cursed Ibex merges the extremity of grindcore with the heaviness of death metal in grinding East Texas fashion.
Depressive black metal project from Ankara, formed in 2021. Cursed in Eternity channels bleak despair through atmospheric black metal from the Turkish capital.
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