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Featured Album
People Watching (2024)
Featured Groove Metal Album
L'Enfant Sauvage (Special Edition) (2012)
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The Necrotic Manifesto (Bonus Tracks Edition) (2023)
11/14 @ The Majestic Ventura Theater, Ventura
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Among the Shadows (2024)
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Melodic and technical death metal outfit from Minsk, Belarus, combining intricate guitar work with Scandinavian-influenced melodic sensibility since 2012. Their approach bridges the technicality of modern death metal with the memorable harmonics of the Gothenburg school.
Laying down tracks since 2019, this Gothenburg Power Metal outfit delivers soaring vocal melodies and triumphant guitar harmonies. Their place within the Gothenburg school's homeland speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
San Antonio's Essence of Undeath emerged in 2021 wielding a corrosive blend of black and death metal forged in South Texas heat. Their blackened death attack is both ferocious and suffocating.
Doom/black metal act from Berlin, Germany, whose name means "essence" in German, active since 2010. Their fifteen-year career has produced a catalog of crushing doom enriched with black metal's atmospheric darkness from the German capital.
Active in Lecce since 2005, this Italian act forges Heavy Metal built on classic metal thunder with a modern edge. The production keeps things raw and honest — no frills, all metal.
Melodic heavy metal band from Hagen in Germany's Westphalia region, one of the country's longer-running acts in the style with roots going back to 1999. Their quarter-century career reflects enduring dedication to melodic, hook-driven heavy metal.
Technical death metal outfit Essomenic bring surgical precision and compositional ambition to the Indianapolis underground scene. Their intricate, churning riffs reward close listeners who can keep up with the complexity.
Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands — death metal and grindcore of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2011, they deal in punk-speed chaos meeting death metal's sonic extremity. The combination of influences yields something more interesting than any single genre label implies.
Estado Laico is a grindcore band formed in 2022 in the Pimentas neighborhood of Guarulhos, São Paulo, playing fast and confrontational music rooted in social criticism from a working-class perspective. The four-piece outfit has released multiple recordings including the EP "Vai pro Lixo da História" and subsequent works such as "Estamos no Inferno" and "SISTEMA".
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