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Featured Album
People Watching (2024)
Featured Groove Metal Album
L'Enfant Sauvage (Special Edition) (2012)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
The Necrotic Manifesto (Bonus Tracks Edition) (2023)
11/14 @ The Majestic Ventura Theater, Ventura
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Among the Shadows (2024)
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Austrian death/thrash/groove metal act from the Gröbming/Liezen area, formed in 2020, combining the aggression of death and thrash metal with groove-driven heaviness. Their crossover approach draws from multiple extreme metal traditions to create a versatile, hard-hitting sound.
Thrash metal and crossover act from Almeria in southeastern Spain, delivering high-speed, punk-infused aggression since 2018. Their biologically referencing name adds a scientific edge to their chaotic crossover thrash.
Crafting their sound since 2015, this Grevenmacher Black Metal, Death Metal, and Thrash Metal outfit delivers tremolo-picked fury and blast-beat savagery. Their place within a growing underground metal community speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Out of the rural Northern California hills, Embryonic Devourment have spent over two decades carving some of the most technically unhinged brutal death metal the West Coast has produced. Their music tears through atonal guitar runs and blastbeat barrages with an almost surgical ferocity.
Embryonica is a death metal band from Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, formed in 2017. The band plays technically demanding death metal described as skull-shattering tech death with rapid rhythmic shifts and layered guitar work. Their 2017 release Naïf, a three-track effort recorded at Mr. Prog Studio, showcases the five-piece lineup's progressive and experimental edge within the death metal framework.
Brutal death metal band from Loches, France formed in 2012. They channel grotesque brutality from the medieval Touraine countryside.
Detroit's Embryos keep their feet planted in the blue-collar tradition of heavy metal, delivering straightforward riffs built for loud rooms and louder crowds. Formed in 2017, they carry the Motor City's grit into everything they record.
A product of Russia's vast and intense metal underground, this Samara-based power metal and symphonic metal act channels cinematic sweep and operatic vocals over thundering metal arrangements. Active since 2018, their catalog reveals a band unafraid to explore the darker corners of heavy music.
Melodic heavy metal act from Aviles in Asturias, Spain, crafting hook-driven, powerful compositions since 2013. Their gem-inspired name captures the polished, sparkling quality of their melodic metal from Spain's northern coast.
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