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Featured Album
Slave to the Scalpel (2021)
Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
AMENRA “De zotte morgen” (written by Zjef Vanuytsel) (2020)
05/15 @ Paribu Art - Ana Sahne, İstanbul
Featured Groove Metal Album
State Of Unrest (2023)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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Toledo, Ohio thrash metal band formed in 2023, delivering straight-ahead Bay Area-influenced thrash from the industrial heartland of the Midwest.
Social Decline deliver thrash metal and crossover from Copenhagen, channeling societal critique through high-velocity riffing. Active since 2010, they bring politically charged aggression to the Danish capital's heavy scene.
Podolsk's Social Discord pair crossover thrash with standard thrash from the Moscow suburbs since 2021. Their name of societal fracture channels the breakdown of collective harmony into pit-ready compositions of suburban aggression.
New York crossover thrash and hardcore band formed in 2024, channeling the raw, circle-pit energy of early thrash and punk-metal fusion into a modern register.
Orange County punk legends Social Distortion, led by the gravel-voiced Mike Ness since 1978, are one of the longest-running and most respected punk rock bands in history, having essentially invented the country-punk hybrid that countless bands have since adopted. Their 1990 self-titled album and its hit 'Ball and Chain' brought their unique blend of punk, rockabilly, and outlaw country to a mainstream audience, while earlier records like 'Mommy's Little Monster' are cornerstones of California punk. Ness's hard-lived authenticity and the band's timeless, working-class songwriting have earned Social Distortion an almost mythical status in punk rock.
Thrash metal band from Ananindeua, Pará, formed in December 2019 with a stated focus on old school thrash. The band released their debut album 'Nação Suicida' on August 5, 2021, a nine-track record addressing themes of political conflict, systematic alienation, and postmodern social problems.
New Jersey death/black metal band formed in 2014, combining the brutality of death metal with black metal's misanthropic darkness in the spirit of the state's longstanding extreme metal underground.
Pittsburgh heavy metal band formed in 2016, rooted in the blue-collar grit and working-class energy that has long defined the Steel City's rock and metal tradition.
Socialistik Primer grind through grindcore from Hameenlinna, channeling political ideology through short, explosive compositions. Formed in 2024, they bring politically charged extremity to the southern Finnish scene.
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