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Let You Go (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
The Bestiary (2025)
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One Day Closer to the End of the World (2019)
05/11 @ WorkPlay Theatre, Birmingham
Featured Metalcore Album
Halo (2017)
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Turkish black metal and death metal act, active since 2023 delivering dissonant chord progressions shrouded in reverb-drenched malice. Rooted in Turkey's rapidly expanding metal underground, atmosphere and hostility share equal billing in their work.
Crust punk and death metal act from Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain, active since 2001. With over two decades of activity, they are a pillar of the Galician crust and extreme underground.
Thrash metal act from the Rendsburg/Kiel area of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, delivering high-speed aggression since 2013. Their name evokes annihilation and disappearance, driving a sound built on relentless thrash intensity.
Thrash metal band from Granada, Andalusia, Spain formed in 2015. They bring tight, aggressive thrash from the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains.
San Fernando Valley's Extinction have been fusing thrash and death metal since 2020, drawing on Southern California's long relationship with extreme music to produce something that honors both traditions. The Valley's sprawling suburban geography seems to fuel a certain restless, aggressive energy in the bands it produces.
Tiffin, Ohio's Extinction Agenda arrived in 2023 fusing brutal death metal and deathcore into something maximally heavy and deliberately relentless. The small-city Ohio origin underscores an underground work ethic — this is music built from the ground up with no expectation of easy attention.
Florida's Extinction Coefficient launched in 2022 weaving progressive metal's architectural ambition into a metalcore framework, creating music that demands active listening alongside its physical impact. The Andover origin places them outside the state's major scenes, lending their work an independent, exploratory quality.
Death metal, melodic death metal, and metalcore band from Vaasa, Finland active since 2013. They bring modern extreme metal from the Ostrobothnian coast.
Ventura, California's Extinction Lord have been playing straight-ahead thrash metal since 2015, operating just north of Los Angeles in a coastal community with its own distinct metal identity. Their focus is unapologetically traditional — fast, riff-heavy, and committed to the genre's core values.
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