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Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Dance Devil Dance (Live at Sonic Temple) (2024)
05/15 @ Palladium Times Square, New York City
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Providence death metal act drawing from New England's historically dark and storied underground, delivering straight-ahead brutality with the no-nonsense directness Rhode Island's scene is known for.
Rising from Ogden against the backdrop of Utah's Wasatch Mountains, this atmospheric doom/post-metal band stretches slow, heavy compositions across vast sonic terrain where despair and transcendence coexist.
McAllen's thrash/death metal contingent, operating from deep in the Rio Grande Valley where the heat and isolation of the Texas borderlands fuel a relentless, suffocating sonic assault.
Birmingham, Alabama black/death metal act steeped in the South's tradition of heavy, dark extremity — a city with steel in its bones and a metal underground that has always punched above its weight.
Madison's symphonic black metal counterpart to their city's groove metal namesake, this Wisconsin outfit layers orchestral grandeur over icy black metal aggression with theatrical ambition.
Black metal project from Athens, Greece active since 2015. They deliver dark, commanding black metal from the Hellenic capital.
Grindcore outfit from Hasselt, Belgium, delivering blistering, chaotic blasts of noise and aggression since 2017. Their provocatively named project channels the genre's tradition of shock and aural violence from the heart of Belgian Limburg.
Santa Ana goregrind unit with a name designed to offend and music built to match — blasting, absurdist, and utterly indifferent to good taste in the grand tradition of West Coast goregrind.
Thrash/speed metal act from Hamburg, Germany, delivering high-velocity, provocatively named aggression since 2020. Their no-holds-barred approach channels the raw energy and rebellious spirit of the genre's most unrestrained tendencies.
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