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Featured Album
Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
Featured Groove Metal Album
Soundtrack to Your Escape (The Quiet Place Version) (2022)
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Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
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Helping Hands…Live & Acoustic At The Masonic (2019)
06/25 @ Hampden Park National Stadium, Glasgow
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Raw Black Metal outfit rooted in Utrecht Province, channeling menacing underground intensity since 2017. Icy melodies interwoven with blast-beaten fury characterize their output.
Thrash metal act from Brighton, active since 2019. Their aggressive compositions bring thrash metal fury to the English south coast's eclectic music scene.
Pagan Black/Death Metal outfit rooted in Gothenburg, channeling blistering underground intensity since 2013. Cold atmospheres and venomous vocals define their particular approach to the genre.
Himinbjorg is a black/viking metal act from Chambéry, France, active since 2010 and channeling ancient mythology and warrior heritage through aggressive metal. The project draws from pre-Christian traditions and epic themes.
Minneapolis' Himmelschor — German for "heavenly choir" — bring gothic metal's orchestral melancholy and romantic darkness to a city not typically associated with the genre. The project, born in 2024, balances grandeur with the grim, inhabiting the same emotional space as a crumbling cathedral.
Himmelstorm is a melodic heavy metal/rock band from Norway, active since 2018 and forging classic heavy metal with conviction and power. The project channels the timeless spirit of traditional metal riffage.
Seattle metalcore band Himsa formed in 1998, taking their name from the Sanskrit word for harm or violence, and released four studio albums before disbanding in 2008. Produced during a period when the band relocated to Denmark, their 2005 album Hail Horror followed the well-received Courting Tragedy and Disaster (2003), and the band's final record Summon in Thunder was released through Century Media Records in 2007. A 2016 reunion brought them back to the stage, though no new recordings have followed.
Death metal/grindcore band from Zaragoza, Spain, active since 2008. Nearly two decades of extreme music make them veterans of the Aragonese grindcore underground.
From Västerås in Sweden, this speed/black metal act brings relentless intensity to the regional scene since 2013. Their sound channels tremolo-driven fury and blasting percussion through walls of distortion.
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