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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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Progressive thrash metal band from Ankara, Turkey, formed in 2021, bringing common people's fury through technically ambitious thrash metal. They bring progressive complexity to the Turkish thrash scene.
A 2025 death metal arrival from the ancient Castilian city of Soria, Primitive Noise channels the province's legendary emptiness — Spain's least populated — into compositions as stark and unforgiving as the surrounding landscape.
Deathcore and metalcore band from Limoges, France, active since 2006, making them a veteran act in the French deathcore scene. Nearly two decades of heavy breakdowns and aggressive vocals mark their dedication.
Barcelona's Pripyat Escape uses the Chernobyl ghost-city as both name and metaphor since 2019, crafting progressive metal that explores themes of catastrophe and survival. Their Catalan base provides the creative resources for their ambitious, concept-driven approach.
A Belo Horizonte heavy metal act fronted by vocalist Cynthia Mara, Pleiades built an early reputation opening for Deep Purple on two separate occasions — the first time with guitarist André Mendonça still a teenager. The band contributed a cover of "Woman from Tokyo" to the Deep Purple tribute compilation Woman from Brazil, released by Armadillo Records in 2020.
Death and black metal band from Brasov, Romania, formed in 2021, delivering extreme metal from the dramatic Transylvanian mountain city. They bring dark intensity from the foot of the Carpathians.
Indiana's Plenary Indulgence crawls through the intersection of funeral doom and sludge with crushing deliberateness, building suffocating walls of feedback and grief into extended dirges. Formed in 2022, the project channels the bleakest traditions of the genre — glacial tempos, cavernous tones, and the oppressive weight of something that refuses to end quickly.
Pagan and folk metal band from Gdynia, Poland, active since 2009, drawing from Slavic pagan traditions through folk-infused metal from the Baltic coast. Over fifteen years they have explored the mystical gateway their name suggests.
Désandans's Phenix has been rising through progressive and power metal since 2011, their resurrection-themed name matching the ambition of their Franche-Comté-based project. Their small eastern French village origins belie the grandeur of their symphonic-tinged compositions.
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