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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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Stoner metal band from Cornwall, England, formed in 2015. They deliver sci-fi-themed, fuzz-drenched stoner metal from the English West Country.
Bakersfield, California melodic black metal band blending the atmosphere of black metal with melodic death metal's harmonic sensibility. Cybil brings Central Valley underground intensity to a style rooted in darkness and melody.
San Francisco progressive metalcore band known for intricate song structures, shifting rhythms, and a technically ambitious approach to heavy music. Cyborg Octopus weaves progressive metal's complexity into emotionally dynamic metalcore compositions.
Symphonic black metal act from the Greek port city of Volos, active since 2015. Cychaeon blends orchestral grandeur with tremolo-picked ferocity in a nod to Hellenic tradition.
San Francisco band fusing melodic death metal with black metal atmosphere and Bay Area extreme metal ferocity. Cyclaera builds its sound on twin-guitar melody and black metal coldness, tempered by death metal's brutal drive.
Mansfield, Connecticut death metal and hardcore band merging the brutality of death metal with the urgency and rawness of hardcore. Cycle of Decay navigates the violent intersection of two extremes with muscular, unflinching force.
Elgin, Illinois progressive metal band crafting melodically ambitious compositions built on shifting dynamics and technical musicianship. Cycle of Infinity draws from the tradition of American progressive metal with a focus on sonic depth and compositional sophistication.
Hopatcong, New Jersey sludge metal band burying listeners under caustic, slow-moving riffs and feedback-drenched misery. Cycle of Pain operates in the tradition of Southern sludge with a Northeast underground rawness.
St. Louis band merging death metal's aggression with power metal's melodic drive into an intense and dynamic sound. Cycle of Ruin channels Midwestern heavy music intensity through shifting tempos and brutal-yet-melodic riff work.
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