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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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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.
Pittsburgh black metal and hardcore band fusing the raw intensity of black metal with the DIY directness of hardcore. Cydonia brings a confrontational, stripped-down edge to extreme metal from the Pittsburgh underground.
Shenandoah, Virginia black metal band operating in the raw, underground tradition of American black metal. Cydron cultivates a cold and desolate sound shaped by the Blue Ridge Mountains' isolation.
Denver black metal and crust punk band combining the rawness of crust with the menacing atmosphere of black metal. Cyffrous Indignus channels political fury and sonic chaos through a grimy, anarchic extreme metal framework.
Athenian industrial metal project formed in 2011. Cygnosic merges cold electronic textures with metallic aggression, exploring dystopian and cybernetic themes.
Progressive and power metal band from Lier, Belgium, formed in 2017. Their growing catalog including 'The Empyrean Heaven' and 'The First Hour' showcases ambitious progressive metal with a focus on conceptual depth and musical sophistication.
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