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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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Melodic death-thrash metal band from London, formed in 2022. They blend melodic death metal with thrash speed from the English capital.
Thrash metal band from Orleans, France, formed in 2019. They deliver aggressive thrash from the Loire Valley capital.
Doom-heavy-thrash act from Porto, active since 2016. Cycles blends crushing doom with heavy and thrash metal elements from northern Portugal.
Death-thrash metal band from Prerov, Czech Republic, formed in 2019. They merge the technical intensity of death metal with the speed-driven assault of thrash.
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.
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