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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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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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Melodic power metal band from Oulu, Finland, formed in 2018, whose name references the classic Black Sabbath track. They deliver soaring, melodic power metal from Finland's northern reaches.
Albany's Planet Eater drag sludge and stoner weight through a metalcore framework, building slow-burning riffs into volatile, lurching explosions. Since 2016 they've carved a niche in the Northeast underground where heaviness is measured in tonnage.
Atmospheric black metal and ambient project from Yekaterinburg, Russia, formed in 2013, reflecting cosmic light through immersive atmospheric compositions from the Ural Mountains capital. Over a decade of celestial atmosphere.
Mannheim's Planks evolved from straightforward sludge metal into a more complex blackened sludge and post-metal hybrid over their years of activity since 2007. Their Kurpfalz industrial-city roots inform a sound that grew progressively darker and more ambitious with each release.
Plankton was a heavy metal band from Belém that operated briefly before splitting up, releasing a demo titled Anomalia that circulated through the underground. Their themes touched on metal, life, death, and religion within a traditional heavy metal framework rooted in the northern Brazilian scene.
Named after the psychoactive mushroom genus, Laudio's Psilocybe has been dispensing thrash metal with hallucinatory intensity since 2016. Their Basque Country setting connects them to Álava's underground scene, where extreme music thrives in small but passionate communities.
Plano D is a groove metal band from Rio Grande do Sul formed in 2016, channeling the heavy, mid-tempo riff-driven energy of the genre's core influences into a southern Brazilian context. The band later evolved and continued activity under the name Obscure Perception, suggesting an ongoing drive to develop their sound beyond their original groove metal roots.
Madison, Wisconsin's Plant have been sowing stoner groove since 2007, rooting their sound in thick mid-paced riffs and a low-end rumble that owes as much to swamp rock as it does to metal. Unhurried, heavy, and deliberately earthy.
Post-black metal band from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2012, whose philosophical name hints at the cerebral nature of their post-black metal approach. Over a decade of thoughtful extremity.
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