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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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Heavy metal band from Kiel on Germany's Baltic coast, formed in 2019 and named after the witch from H.P. Lovecraft's fiction. Their sound channels traditional heavy metal through an occult, literary lens.
Grootebroek's metal underground has produced no shortage of heavy acts, and this heavy metal and thrash metal unit is among them — wielding Bay Area velocity married to Teutonic heaviness. Circle-pit fuel delivered with workmanlike consistency.
Death/thrash/groove metal and metalcore band from Copenhagen, formed in 2018 and delivering a versatile, multi-genre assault. Their direct, action-oriented name captures the immediate, aggressive energy of their sound.
The Russian city of Vladimir serves as headquarters for this progressive metal and thrash metal operation, whose arsenal includes Opeth-school dynamics married to modern progressive sensibility. Each release demonstrates a commitment to artistic evolution.
Sludge/post-metal band from Cologne, formed in 2018 and building massive, dynamic compositions from the Rhineland underground. Their sound layers sludge's crushing weight with post-metal's atmospheric expansiveness.
Progressive death metal and deathcore band from West Sussex, formed in 2021 and pushing the boundaries of extreme metal with technical complexity and atmospheric depth. Their sound navigates the territory between progressive death metal's intricate compositions and deathcore's crushing breakdowns.
Khadabra is a psychedelic doom metal quartet from Buenos Aires, Argentina, formed in 2013, comprising Verónica on vocals, Gastón on guitar, Facundo on drums, and Miguel on bass. The band documented their early live sound on Ritual Secreto (Vivo), a full live recording from the Casa Rodante venue in Almagro captured in September 2013, followed by a self-titled EP in 2015 and a second live album drawn from a March 2018 Club V performance.
In existence since 2012, this Prešov Black Metal and Industrial Metal outfit delivers mechanical rhythms and electronic textures fused with metallic aggression. Their place within Slovakia's Central European metal enclave speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Polish avant-garde metal, doom metal, and sludge metal act, active since 2018 delivering glacial, punishment-dealing grooves wallowing in distortion. Rooted in one of Eastern Europe's most formidable metal communities, uncompromising in their vision, they deliver exactly what their audience demands.
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