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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Playlist: The Very Best of Corrosion of Conformity (2010)
05/09 @ Mr Smalls Theatre, Millvale
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Death metal and grindcore act from Liverpool, active since 2021. Their grotesque surgical name matches visceral extremity from one of northwest England's most storied cities.
Hoodoo Ritual is a stoner/doom metal band from Malmö, Sweden, active since 2018 and delivering crushing, fuzz-laden heaviness where doom's oppressive weight meets stoner metal's hazy grooves. The project channels low-end power and psychedelic atmosphere.
HoofKnuckle is a stoner/heavy metal band from Leeds, United Kingdom, active since 2018 and delivering fuzz-laden, groove-heavy riffs through a haze of overdriven amplification. The project channels the riff-worshipping spirit of the genre.
A cold experimental black metal, country entity from Lisbon, contributing to the portuguese underground since 2016. Their compositions evoke desolate landscapes through raw, uncompromising aggression.
A blistering gothic/black metal entity from Vilnius, contributing to the lithuanian underground since 2019. Their sound channels tremolo-driven fury and blasting percussion through walls of distortion.
From Peterborough, New Hampshire, Hookermouth have been crafting grimy stoner-sludge metal since 2014, leaning into fuzz-saturated grooves and a stubbornly filthy aesthetic. Not much subtlety, and none is required.
Melodic death/thrash metal band from Heilbronn, Germany, formed in 2018. Their polished crossover merges Gothenburg-style melodies with thrash metal velocity from the Neckar valley wine country.
Stoner/doom metal band from Sint-Niklaas, Belgium, active since 2010, blending doomy stoner grunge metal into a fuzzy, aggressive package. Their album Marked delivers ten tracks of sludge-soaked heaviness across forty-four minutes of relentless riffing.
Arlington, Texas's Hope Deferred occupy the grinding intersection of deathcore and death metal, channeling spiritual despair into brutally heavy music since 2016. The name comes from scripture; the sound comes from somewhere far darker.
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