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People Watching (2024)
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L'Enfant Sauvage (Special Edition) (2012)
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The Necrotic Manifesto (Bonus Tracks Edition) (2023)
11/14 @ The Majestic Ventura Theater, Ventura
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Among the Shadows (2024)
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Heavy/Power Metal, Hard Rock outfit rooted in Helsinki, channeling volatile underground intensity since 2015. Twin-guitar harmonies and commanding vocals characterize their sound.
Rooted in Paris's underground, this heavy metal project delivers grim compositions with conviction since 2020. Classic metal craftsmanship and energetic delivery define their approach.
Operating from Kolbotn, this raw black metal project has been shaping furious sound since 2018. Their compositions evoke desolate landscapes through raw, uncompromising aggression.
Born in the harsh underground of Oslo, this black metal act has delivered unflinching intensity since 2022. Their approach balances melodic undertones with the genre's most aggressive impulses.
Hevnoraak is a Brazilian doom/death metal project formed in 2019. Their debut release Sinking Into Nothingness, issued on February 8, 2019, comprises three tracks — "Tangible Existence," "A Fair Death," and "Ensnared Aura (An Ode to Emptiness)" — establishing a slow, oppressive sound rooted in atmosphere and weight. A cassette edition of the release was pressed by Final Hours of Christ Productions in 2022.
Hevvn is a avant-garde black/death metal band from Kharkiv, Ukraine, formed in 2022. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
Seattle's Hewa arrived in 2018 with a stripped approach to black metal that suits the Pacific Northwest's damp and darkened character. Cold, deliberate, and unornamented, the project draws on the foundational grammar of the genre without borrowing its aesthetics wholesale.
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