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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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Wheat Ridge, Colorado black metal band formed in 2019, drawing on the raw and ritualistic currents of the black metal underground with a sound informed by occult themes.
Macon, Georgia stoner metal band formed in 2013, blending the fuzz-drenched grooves of stoner metal with punk energy, rooted in the heavy Southern rock tradition of their home state.
Sugarfields evolved from punk rock origins into progressive metal and hard rock territory, a stylistic journey that makes them one of Geneva's more unpredictable heavy acts. Their willingness to reinvent themselves speaks to a restless creative spirit that transcends genre boundaries.
Tampa, Florida band formed in 2022 that merges groove metal's heavy mid-paced rhythms with metalcore's post-hardcore dynamics and funk-influenced elements for a varied heavy sound.
Chicago atmospheric black metal band formed in 2017, evoking wide, desolate soundscapes through a blend of raw black metal intensity and expansive post-metal ambience.
Old school death metal band formed in Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul, in November 2014 by guitarist Rafael JL Teles and vocalist/bassist Anderson Echeverria. They released the EP Necro Suggillation Tantric Spawn in 2016 and followed it with the debut full-length Revenge of the Monarch, the Kingdoom Cult through the Mexican label Iron Blood and Death Corporation in January 2019.
Virginia black metal project formed in 2016, operating in the underground with a raw and uncompromising approach to the black metal tradition.
Maple Grove, Minnesota depressive black metal project formed in 2024, working within the DSBM tradition of minimalist, emotionally raw black metal with an emphasis on atmosphere over aggression.
Bari's Suicidal Anxiety practice black metal from Puglia since 2021. Their psychologically extreme name captures the overwhelming dread that fuels their atmospheric compositions from Italy's southeast.
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