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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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Straddling the line between black metal and death metal, this Italian actfrom Milan fuses technically precise fretwork wrapped in visceral brutality into a cohesive whole. They've been at it since 1995, and their recordings carry the stench of early 90s death metal worship.
Doom metal band from Maidstone, Kent, formed in 2020 and exploring esoteric, metaphysical themes through densely atmospheric doom compositions. Their releases feature experimental typography and poetic language that reflect a deeply philosophical approach to extreme metal.
Exploring the depths of death metal and groove metal, this Portuguese outfit has been refining their craft since 2024. Their sound hinges on suffocating heaviness anchored by rumbling low-end, delivered with ruthless intent.
Gothic metal/rock project from Madrid, formed in 2023 and blending dark, atmospheric compositions with heavy rock foundations. Their sound channels gothic metal's melancholic elegance through a modern Spanish lens.
Heavy metal band from Donostia-San Sebastian in the Basque Country, formed in 2017 and named after the mythological chimera. Their sound channels classic heavy metal power from the Basque cultural heartland.
Death/thrash metal and metalcore band from Besancon in eastern France, active since 2015 and blending three aggressive styles. Their name adds a mysterious, otherworldly quality to their genre-crossing extremity.
Thrash/death metal band from Paris, formed in 2019 and channeling chaotic aggression from the French capital. Their chaos theory name reflects the calculated disorder at the heart of their extreme metal.
Avant-garde/experimental black metal band from Freiburg im Breisgau, active since 2009 and pushing black metal into unconventional, boundary-dissolving territory. Their sound challenges genre conventions with abstract compositions and unpredictable structures.
Black metal/dungeon synth project from Cartagena in southeastern Spain, formed in 2021 and combining raw black metal with medieval-influenced electronic atmospheres. Their dual-genre approach bridges extreme metal's aggression with dungeon synth's brooding nostalgia.
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