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Featured Album
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
Featured Grindcore Album
The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Heavy metal band from Avila in Castile and Leon, active since 2013 and delivering classic metal from one of Spain's most atmospheric medieval walled cities. Their fuel-inspired name matches the combustible energy of their sound.
Groove metal band from Dole in the Jura region, active since 2011 and delivering over a decade of thick, rhythmically driven compositions. Their punk-referencing name adds a rebellious edge to their groove metal.
Seattle's Kerr Ring weave folk storytelling, gothic atmosphere, and symphonic grandeur into a richly layered sound, standing out in the Pacific Northwest scene since 2019 with music that's ornate and emotionally resonant.
Heavy metal band from Freiburg im Breisgau, active since 2010 and delivering riff-driven traditional metal from the southwestern German underground. Their sound draws from classic heavy metal's power and melodic sensibility.
Doom/post-metal project from Alicante on Spain's Mediterranean coast, formed in 2024 and building heavy, atmospheric compositions. Their name's irreverent play on words belies a genuinely weighty approach to doom and post-metal.
Oregon black/death metal outfit Kesselschlacht arrived in 2024 with a militaristic edge baked into their very name — their music carries the same sense of brutal, overwhelming force.
Underground to the core, this avant-garde metal and black metal act from Pordenone traffics in icy tremolo lines cascading over relentless percussion. Since 2017, they've built a catalog that reflects Italy's underrated but thriving metal community.
Tualatin, Oregon's Kestrel have been honing their black metal craft since 2020, drawing on the grey Pacific Northwest sky for a sound that's atmospheric, raw, and deeply rooted in place.
Arvada, Colorado's Ketch drag doom and sludge together into something slow, filthy, and massive — formed in 2022, they deliver the kind of crushing riff-worship that makes the floor shake and the room feel smaller.
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