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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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Death/doom/thrash metal band from Cologne, Germany, formed in 2020. Their genre-spanning approach merges the crushing weight of doom, the brutality of death metal, and the speed of thrash.
Symphonic/folk/power metal band from Rostock, Germany, active since 2008. Their elaborate compositions layer symphonic orchestrations and folk melodies over a foundation of power metal from the Baltic coast.
Blasphemous Black Metal from Kentucky/.
San Francisco's Herpes lean into D-beat and goregrind with the kind of self-aware punk nihilism that the Bay Area's underground has always nurtured since their 2010 formation. The name tells you everything about their attitude toward conventional good taste.
HerPoisonedVeil is a various act from Italy, active since 2018 and channeling aggressive, heavy music through its uncompromising artistic vision. The project delivers powerful metal from the Italy scene.
Black Metal project from Finland, forging punishing compositions since 2017. Their compositions evoke desolate landscapes through raw, uncompromising aggression.
Heavy metal band from Varna, Bulgaria, on the Black Sea coast. Their sound channels the classic traditions of European heavy metal with powerful riffs and commanding vocals, including the live recording Live 2020.
Black Metal outfit rooted in Besançon, channeling scorching underground intensity. Their sound channels tremolo-driven fury and blasting percussion through walls of distortion.
Operating from Paris, this electronic industrial metal project has been shaping raw sound since 2006. Tight compositions and aggressive delivery characterize their particular approach.
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