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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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Progressive power metal outfit from London, active since 2020. Their masterful name matches ambitious compositions blending technical proficiency with the epic scope of European power metal.
From Budapest in Hungary, this southern/sludge metal act brings relentless intensity to the regional scene since 2009. Energetic performances and committed songwriting define their approach.
Heavy metal band from Gladbeck, Germany, active since 2010. Their sun-drenched name belies a powerful heavy metal sound forged in the industrial fires of the Ruhr Valley.
Hawake is a progressive metal band from Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, formed in 2018. The band blends intricate guitar work, keyboards, and dynamic vocals into an expansive progressive metal sound, and has performed as a support act for Angra in their hometown. Their debut release Duality of the Universe established them as a notable presence in the Brazilian progressive metal scene.
Stoner metal band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2020. Their thick, fuzzy riffs and groove-laden compositions deliver the hypnotic weight of stoner metal from the German capital.
New Orleans sludge/doom outfit Hawg Jaw embody the Crescent City's grimy, humidity-soaked approach to heavy music — slow, churning, and perpetually on the verge of collapse in the best possible way. Since 2009 they've been one of the Bayou scene's more viscerally satisfying acts.
Named for the folding knife favored across rural Appalachia, Manchester, Kentucky's Hawkbill play sludge metal with the blunt, unhurried menace of the region itself. Since 2017 they've crafted a sound that feels earned rather than stylistically borrowed — all low end and coal-seam grit.
Power/thrash/doom metal band from Bremen, Germany, active since 2012. Their versatile sound spans the full range from power metal grandeur through thrash velocity to doom metal weight.
Hawkmoon is a black metal project from Marseille, France, active since 2017 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the France black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
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