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Featured Album
People Watching (2024)
Featured Groove Metal Album
L'Enfant Sauvage (Special Edition) (2012)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
The Necrotic Manifesto (Bonus Tracks Edition) (2023)
11/14 @ The Majestic Ventura Theater, Ventura
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Among the Shadows (2024)
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San Francisco technical/progressive death metal band formed in 2016, operating in a Bay Area tradition of cerebral extremity. Their music pushes at the architecture of death metal, favoring labyrinthine song structures and technical precision.
Thrash metal band from Westchester County, New York, active since 2013, rooted in the classic American thrash idiom. Over a decade in, they represent the persistent backbone of the suburban New York underground metal scene.
Melodic black metal project out of Princeton, Illinois, formed in 2017. Drawing on the atmospheric and melodic strains of Scandinavian black metal, they filter that tradition through an American Midwest isolation that gives the music its own austere character.
Sentinelle play heavy metal from the French underground, channeling the watchful intensity their sentinel name demands. Active since 2015, they bring vigilant traditional metal to the French scene.
Florence's Sentinum deliver folk metal with a name referencing the ancient Battle of Sentinum since 2015. Their historical awareness and Tuscan origins create a culturally rich context for their fusion of traditional and heavy music.
Thrash/speed metal band from Liege formed in 2023, injecting fresh energy into Wallonia's metal scene with high-velocity aggression. Their sound bridges the raw speed of early thrash with the relentless attack of speed metal.
Milan's SenzaVita play heavy metal with an Italian name meaning "lifeless" since 2017. Their paradoxically vital sound belies their morbid name, delivering energetic traditional metal from Italy's largest city.
Separate My Veins blend melodic groove metal with metalcore from Regensburg, combining rhythmic heaviness with emotionally charged melodic passages. Their visceral name matches the intensity of their Bavarian-crafted modern metal.
Separator deliver heavy metal from the small Moravian town of Milotice, channeling classic metal energy with a Czech sensibility. Formed in 2023, they bring traditional metal's fire and passion to the South Moravian countryside.
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