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Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Dance Devil Dance (Live at Sonic Temple) (2024)
05/15 @ Palladium Times Square, New York City
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Jonkoping's Snailking have been merging stoner, sludge, and doom metal since 2012. Over a decade from the Smaland capital, their gastropod-royalty name has channeled the slow majesty of the mollusk sovereign into compositions of layered, fuzz-drenched heaviness.
Linkoping's Snailmageddon craft epic black metal from the Ostergotland capital since 2019. Their absurdist name combining gastropod armageddon channels the apocalyptic potential of the seemingly harmless into compositions of atmospheric grandeur.
Philadelphia death metal band formed in 2019, drawing on the city's storied extreme metal underground to craft dense, punishing material with an old-school sensibility.
New York City heavy metal and hard rock outfit formed in 2017, blending traditional metal songcraft with a gritty urban edge consistent with the NYC underground.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania heavy and power metal band formed in 2015, combining muscular riffing with melodic hooks in the classic American power metal tradition.
Heavy metal band from Branson, Missouri, active since 2010, delivering no-frills traditional metal rooted in the hard rock and classic metal aesthetics of the Midwest.
Houston, Texas stoner metal and rock outfit formed in 2023, channeling fuzz-drenched riffs and heavy grooves consistent with the South Texas heavy rock underground.
Miami, Florida doom metal project formed in 2021, conjuring occult-tinged, slow-burning heaviness with an atmosphere reflective of the South Florida underground.
Tallahassee, Florida doom and stoner metal band formed in 2013, blending hazy psychedelic riffs with lumbering sludge tempos in the tradition of Southern fuzz-doom.
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