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Featured Album
The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Ad Astra (2025)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Serpent & Spirit (2021)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Make It Rain / On the Other Side of Tonight (2024)
05/15 @ Palladium Times Square, New York City
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New Jersey thrashers formed in 2017, delivering the kind of pit-ready aggression that carries on the Garden State's underground metal tradition. Their sound favors blunt riffing and urgency over technical flash.
Fresno thrash outfit with one of metal's most deliberately confrontational names, channeling the San Joaquin Valley's working-class grit into raw, no-frills thrash since 2017. Expect speed, attitude, and zero pretense.
Atmospheric black metal project from Basel, Switzerland, conjuring immersive, textured darkness since 2017. Their evocative name describes their musical mission: to transform brightness into shadow through layers of tremolo-picked atmosphere.
Melodic death/groove metal act from Copenhagen, Denmark, blending harmonic richness with rhythmic heaviness since 2018. Their name evokes the act of casting into darkness, driving a sound that merges melody with aggression.
Gothic metal band from Tampere, Finland launched in 2023. They explore dark romantic atmospheres from Finland's second-largest city.
Death metal act from Bonn, Germany, delivering visceral extremity since 2018. Their Celtic-derived name adds a mythological dimension to their punishing death metal approach.
Post-metal project from Oulu, Finland that emerged in 2025. They craft atmospheric, heavy soundscapes from northern Finland.
Groove/thrash metal band from Poitiers, France with roots stretching back to 1993. As one of the region's longest-running metal acts, they bring over three decades of heavy experience.
Thrash metal, punk, and hardcore hybrid from Kaufering in Bavaria, Germany, blending three aggressive styles with provocative humor since 2011. Their anatomically crude German name sets the tone for an irreverent, high-energy crossover assault.
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