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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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Heavy metal act from Barcelona, Spain active since 2014. They contribute to Catalonia's thriving traditional metal scene with their hard-hitting sound.
Black metal project from County Meath, Ireland launched in 2026. They bring fresh black metal from the Irish midlands.
Solo melodic death, groove, and gothic metal project from Cesena, Italy launched in 2020. The project blends Scandinavian-style melodic death metal with groove and gothic metal elements into a one-person creative vision.
Intricate Progressive Metal out of Texas.
Boston death metal solo project by guitarist Eric Pellegrini, channeling the New England work ethic into dense, independently crafted extreme metal built from the ground up without compromise.
A one-man heavy/power metal institution from rural Vassar, Michigan, Eric VanLandingham has spent over three decades crafting epic, classically influenced metal entirely on his own terms.
Chicago doom metal legend Eric Wagner, best known as the voice of Trouble, released solo work that carries all the same plaintive heaviness and spiritual weight he brought to that band's towering catalog.
A product of Italy's deep-rooted extreme metal underground, this Turin-based folk metal and heavy metal act channels acoustic instrumentation clashing productively with electric fury. Active since 2017, the combination of influences yields something more interesting than any single genre label implies.
Melodic black/death metal act from Munich, Germany, named after one of the world's oldest Sumerian cities, active since 2019. Their ancient Mesopotamian namesake lends historical gravitas to their fusion of melodic richness and extreme metal aggression.
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