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Featured Album
People Watching (2024)
Featured Groove Metal Album
L'Enfant Sauvage (Special Edition) (2012)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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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Modesto's Etched in Stone push progressive deathcore into ambitious territory, layering technical death metal muscle over carefully constructed song architecture. Active since 2009, they have grown into one of Central California's most accomplished heavy acts.
Thrash/groove metal act from the Volkswagen city of Wolfsburg, Germany, delivering riff-heavy aggression since 2012. Their approach merges thrash speed with the rhythmic punch of groove metal from Lower Saxony's industrial heartland.
Power metal and symphonic metal act from Seville, Spain formed in 2015. They channel epic melodies and orchestral grandeur from southern Spain.
Death metal act from Hanover, Germany, named after the ancient Mesopotamian ziggurat of Babel, active since 2014. Their ancient name lends mythological weight to their punishing approach to modern death metal.
Part of Italy's underrated but thriving metal community, this act channels heavy metal, power metal, and speed metal with a focus on relentless velocity and old-school metal purity. Formed in 2018, based in Pizzighettone (Cremona), the results are heavier and more inventive than the genre tag might suggest.
A product of Poland's titan-grade death metal scene, this Toruń-based black metal and death metal act channels frigid atmospherics and razor-wire guitar tone. Active since 2014, blast beats and shrieked vocals create an impenetrable wall of darkness.
Portland black metal project Eterna distills the grey, rain-soaked atmosphere of the Pacific Northwest into cold, atmospheric compositions. Formed in 2020, the band captures a sense of place as effectively as a sound.
Straddling the line between atmospheric black metal and black metal, this Italian actfrom Urbino fuses dissonant chord progressions shrouded in reverb-drenched malice into a cohesive whole. They've been at it since 2017, and atmosphere and hostility share equal billing in their work.
Laying down tracks since 2024, this Fiorenzuola D'Arda (Piacenza) Death Metal and Melodic Death Metal outfit delivers guttural vocals and churning downtuned riffs. Their place within Italy's underrated but thriving metal community speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
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