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Featured Album
The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Ad Astra (2025)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Serpent & Spirit (2021)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Make It Rain / On the Other Side of Tonight (2024)
05/15 @ Palladium Times Square, New York City
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Los Angeles sludge and death metal band formed in 2024, merging the caustic weight of death metal with sludge's slow, corrosive heaviness in the city's contemporary extreme underground.
Sniper deliver thrash metal from Rotenburg with precision marksmanship, channeling the genre's aggressive velocity with pinpoint accuracy. Active since 2012, they bring targeted aggression to the Lower Saxon thrash scene.
Washington State death metal band formed in 2017, operating in the Pacific Northwest extreme metal underground with a focus on dense, technically oriented death metal.
Raleigh, North Carolina black metal band formed in 2020, working within the raw, atmospheric end of the genre as part of the Southeast underground black metal scene.
Pittsburgh blackened psychedelic stoner and doom metal band formed in 2024, combining the murk of stoner doom with black metal's abrasive atmosphere in a hazily oppressive hybrid.
Santa Barbara's Snot were one of the most promising nu-metal/funk metal acts of the late '90s, with Lynn Strait's charismatic swagger and the band's eclectic blend of funk, punk, and heavy grooves on 'Get Some' setting them apart from their more one-dimensional peers. Strait's tragic death in a 1998 car accident cut the band short at the height of their potential, though the posthumous 'Strait Up' tribute album featured contributions from Corey Taylor, Serj Tankian, and others.
Death metal band from Española, New Mexico, formed in 2018, contributing to the Southwest extreme metal scene with a raw, no-frills approach to the genre.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania heavy metal band formed in 2020, drawing on the city's deep metal heritage to deliver straightforward traditional metal with a working-class edge.
Hassleholm's Snow I.U. play heavy metal from the northern Skane town since 2018. Their winter-themed name and origins at the railway junction of southern Sweden channel crystalline cold into traditional metal compositions.
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