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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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Romeoville, Illinois groove and southern metal band bringing swaggering mid-tempo heaviness to the Chicago suburbs since 2016. Their sound leans into the thick, churning groove of acts like Pantera filtered through Midwestern stoicism.
Suffocating Sludge / Doom Metal out of Texas.
Thrash metal band from Velka nad Velickou in the Czech Republic's Moravia region, delivering high-speed aggression since 2005. Their long tenure makes them a veteran presence in the Czech thrash metal underground.
Death metal band from Pomarkku in western Finland, active since 2019. They deliver brutal death metal from the rural Satakunta region.
A product of Scandinavia's melodic death metal epicenter, this Stockholm-based death metal act channels percussive blast-beat onslaughts and cavernous production. Active since 2010, low-tuned guitars and guttural vocals form the bedrock of their attack.
Metalcore and melodic death metal act from Vienna, Austria, formed in 2025, fusing the rhythmic breakdowns of metalcore with the melodic intensity of Scandinavian-style death metal. A fresh addition to Vienna's diverse extreme metal underground.
Heavy metal band from Zaragoza, Spain formed in 2013, featuring a classic dual-guitar lineup. Their debut EP Desde una Ciudad Inmortal was recorded at Luna Nueva Estudios and showcases their traditional heavy metal sound.
Crossover thrash band from Guerande in Brittany, France formed in 2022. They deliver fast, punk-infused thrash from the Atlantic coast.
Atmospheric gothic/doom metal act from Copenhagen, Denmark, crafting dark, emotionally layered compositions since 2009. Their seasonal name captures the wistful, melancholic quality of their fusion of gothic atmosphere and doom weight.
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