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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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Hailing from the Inland Empire city of Fontana, this California power metal outfit blends soaring clean vocals with twin-guitar harmonies that land somewhere between classic US heavy metal and European power metal pageantry.
A fresh arrival from Dayton's underground, Emerald Cauldron brew classic heavy metal and power metal together with an old-school sense of drama, conjuring something that feels pulled from a different era of the Midwest scene.
Madison's Emerald Douglas trade in thick stoner riffs and slow-crawling doom, channeling the cold Wisconsin winters into music built for haze, weight, and deliberate, crushing movement.
Kansas City's Emerald Eye arrived in 2021 with a power metal vision that favors epic song structures and melodic leads over flash, drawing from the genre's most triumphant traditions without irony.
Heavy metal band from Finland active since 2012. They craft classic heavy metal inspired by the lush, forested Finnish landscape.
Hattiesburg's Emerald Heavy live up to their name with Southern-drenched sludge and doom that moves like storm weather rolling in off the Gulf — slow, humid, and impossible to outrun.
Indianapolis death metal outfit Emerald Lord arrived during the pandemic years and have since been quietly building a catalog of riff-forward brutality rooted in the straight-ahead Midwestern death metal tradition.
Firmly rooted in symphonic metal, this Russian actfrom Vladivostok delivers lush keyboard atmospherics layered over crushing rhythmic power without compromise. They've been at it since 2009, and their sound resists easy categorization, blending influences into something distinctly their own.
Akron's Emerald Rage hit hard at the intersection of speed, power, and traditional heavy metal, delivering the kind of fist-pumping anthems and fleet-footed riffing that recalls the best of the Ohio metal underground.
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