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Actin' Up (2023)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Green Man Rising (Demo) (2017)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Eye Of The Beholder (Live At Hammersmith Odeon, London, England / October 10th, 1988) (2018)
06/25 @ Hampden Park National Stadium, Glasgow
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Salt Lake City's Nine Worlds has been delivering atmospheric sludge metal since 2014, pairing the genre's downtuned, glacial heaviness with sprawling, immersive textures that feel suited to Utah's vast and merciless landscape. Their music moves slowly and deliberately, building weight through repetition and mood rather than sheer speed.
New Jersey's Nine-Iron has been quietly producing death metal under the radar since 2013, operating with the underground ethos of a scene that doesn't need mainstream visibility to sustain itself. Their approach favors the raw, unvarnished aggression that defines the East Coast death metal tradition.
Industrial stoner metal act from Sermoneta Scalo near Latina, formed in 2015 and fusing mechanical rhythms with fuzz-drenched heaviness. Their unconventional hybrid channels the best of both industrial and stoner traditions.
Ninetyfive50 is a five-piece melodic death metal band from Helsinki, Finland, combining aggressive instrumentation with melodic sensibilities and groove metal elements. Their releases Mastermind and Conclusions demonstrate a polished yet hard-hitting approach to modern Finnish death metal.
A Christian heavy metal act from Americana who released a split with Jaws called Madman / A Better World in 1995 on Rock Machine Records. The split showcases a straightforward, melodic approach to heavy metal with faith-oriented themes, situating the band firmly in the Brazilian Christian metal underground of the mid-1990s.
Cherkasy sludge metal act formed in 2016, whose Japanese name meaning 'misanthropy' signals the disaffected worldview behind their crushing sonic weight. Their cross-cultural naming adds an unusual dimension to their oppressive sound.
Ninhur is a Danish post-black metal project formed in 2022. The project pushes black metal into atmospheric, genre-transcending territory.
Frigid Black Metal from Austin, Texas / Western New York.
Ninja is a heavy metal band from Wuppertal, the city famous for its suspended monorail, active since 2017. The band brings stealthy heavy metal to the industrial Bergisches Land region.
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