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Featured Album
Slave to the Scalpel (2021)
Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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AMENRA “De zotte morgen” (written by Zjef Vanuytsel) (2020)
05/15 @ Paribu Art - Ana Sahne, İstanbul
Featured Groove Metal Album
State Of Unrest (2023)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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Death metal act from Drammen, southeast of Oslo, formed in 2022. Cyste delivers punishing death metal from the Buskerud region.
Seattle death metal band operating in the Pacific Northwest underground with a punishing and straightforward approach to brutality. Cystic deals in the foundational elements of American death metal without embellishment.
Asheville, North Carolina brutal death and grindcore band piling grotesque extremity onto a foundation of pummeling low-tuned riffs and blast-beat ferocity. Cystic Nourishment weaponizes Appalachian underground intensity through the most unrelenting corners of extreme metal.
Cystus is a goregrind and death metal solo project from Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil, created by the musician known as Goreterrorist, who also performs in bands including Gorempire and Heretic Razor. The project debuted in August 2021 with the demo "Putrid, Fetid and Corrosive," recorded entirely by Goreterrorist at Grotesque Homestudios in Cuiabá, blending D-beat rhythms with gore-themed death metal and grindcore extremity.
Boston black metal band steeped in atmospheric darkness and the raw, hostile tradition of American black metal. Cythraul draws from the Welsh word for the demonic to channel a sound built on cold, bleak, and unforgiving fury.
Black metal band from Le Pouliguen on the Loire-Atlantique coast, France, formed in 2021. They craft atmospheric black metal from the French Atlantic shore.
Black metal project from Syktyvkar, the capital of the Komi Republic in northern Russia, formed in 2018. Cyticra channels boreal black metal from the sub-Arctic taiga.
Austin, Texas heavy metal band working in the classic tradition of American underground metal with a raw, straightforward approach. Cyto delivers honest, riff-driven heavy metal from the Texas capital's vibrant metal scene.
California black metal project operating in the underground tradition of raw, atmospheric black metal. Cytonic pursues a cold and corrosive sound built on the genre's most primitive and hostile elements.
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