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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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Dallas death metal unit Empty Shell have been excavating brutality from the Texas underground since 2014, delivering pulverizing riff work with the no-frills directness the genre demands.
Cincinnati's Empty Skull traffic in black metal that feels like late-winter Ohio — bleak, unlit, and without apology, churning out misanthropic hostility since 2013.
San Francisco's Empty Suits channel blackened thrash with a punk backbone, dragging Bay Area aggression through the filth of second-wave black metal since 2019.
Melodic blackened death metal forged out of Sioux Falls, Empty Throne blend glacial atmosphere with visceral extremity — sweeping, dark, and arrived fully-formed in 2021.
Salem, Oregon's Empty Tomb meld thrash riffing with hardcore urgency, a relentless Pacific Northwest hybrid that hits fast and leaves little room to breathe.
The Italian city of Ravenna serves as headquarters for this progressive metal operation, whose arsenal includes Opeth-school dynamics married to modern progressive sensibility. Each release demonstrates a commitment to artistic evolution.
Doom and sludge metal band from Oulu in northern Finland, formed in 2017. They channel crushing heaviness from Finland's far north.
Laying down tracks since 2020, this Milan Death Metal and Melodic Death Metal outfit delivers guttural vocals and churning downtuned riffs. Their place within Italy's underrated but thriving metal community speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Black metal act from Marseille, France formed in 2023. They channel dark intensity from France's Mediterranean port city.
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