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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Playlist: The Very Best of Corrosion of Conformity (2010)
06/10 @ The Dome London, London
Featured Grindcore Album
Savage Imperial Death March (2026)
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Power metal band from Hameenlinna, Finland, active since 2013. They deliver melodic, anthemic power metal from the historic Tavastian capital.
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Thrash metal band from Stockholm, formed in 2020. Cardinal Maniac delivers sharp, maniacal thrash from the Swedish capital.
Progressive melodic death metal act from Smolensk, western Russia, active since 2012. Cardinal Points blends technical ambition with melodic death metal from the historic border city.
Heavy metal band from Brunswick, Germany, formed in 2018. They forge classic heavy metal built on powerful riffs, anthemic choruses, and traditional metal values.
Heavy metal band from Durham, England, active since 2011. They deliver classic heavy metal from the historic cathedral city in northeast England.
Oakland doom trio known for their crushingly slow tempos and occult-tinged heaviness, drawing on traditional doom and death-doom influences to build dense, hypnotic walls of misery.
Austin outfit combining the slow burn of doom with sludge metal's abrasive grit, channeling the heat and intensity of the Texas underground into bleak, feedback-drenched soundscapes.
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