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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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Progressive metal and rock project from Minsk, Belarus, crafting intricate, cerebral compositions since 2023. Their approach blends the technical ambition of progressive metal with the melodic accessibility of progressive rock.
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Denton slam/brutal death metal band formed in 2016, delivering the genre's most pulverizing rhythmic dynamics with a name chosen to maximize discomfort. North Texas extreme metal at its most uncompromising.
Brutal death metal act from the Meschede/Arnsberg/Recklinghausen area of Germany's Sauerland region, delivering medically themed extremity since 2016. Their clinical name reflects a surgical approach to the genre's most punishing and visceral forms.
Baton Rouge death metal act operating since 2016 in a city with a surprisingly deep extreme metal tradition. Their sound draws on straightforward death metal's mid-tempo brutality without chasing trends in either the technical or slam directions.
Austrian doom/death metal project from Upper Austria forging epic, crushing compositions since 2022, blending funeral-paced doom with death metal ferocity. Their catalog includes a collaboration with Daniel Droste of AHAB, underscoring their deep roots in the international doom scene.
Death metal band from Heinola, Finland formed in 2020. They deliver parasitic death metal brutality from the Finnish Lakeland.
Death metal and deathcore act from the Baltic university city of Greifswald, Germany, formed in 2023. Their approach merges death metal's guttural ferocity with deathcore's rhythmic breakdowns from northeastern Germany.
Death/doom metal act from Opwijk, Belgium, merging the crushing slowness of doom with death metal's guttural ferocity since 2010. Their long-running commitment to the genre reflects deep roots in Belgium's extreme metal underground.
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