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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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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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Sun King Ba is a Chicago, Illinois sludge/stoner metal act formed in 2022, stacking downtuned, smoke-thick riffs over a punishing rhythmic foundation drawn from the city's heavy underground scene.
Sun Mantra is a stoner/doom metal band from Knoxville, Tennessee, formed in 2023, building meditative, fuzz-driven soundscapes that channel the repetitive pull of heavy riff worship.
Sun Mass is a stoner/doom metal band from Kansas City, Missouri, formed in 2023, delivering slow, ceremonial riff cycles that evoke a sense of ritual weight and sprawling, sun-bleached heaviness.
Sun of Grey is a doom/stoner metal band from Colorado Springs, Colorado, formed in 2017, drawing on the high-altitude bleakness of the Front Range in their slow, fuzzed-out compositions.
Sun of the Blind merge atmospheric black metal with ambient passages from Bern, creating expansive soundscapes that evoke both the vastness of the cosmos and the isolation of the Alpine landscape. Their approach emphasizes texture and mood as much as metallic aggression.
Sun of the Dying craft doom/death metal from Madrid, building crushing compositions that explore the dying of the light. Active since 2017, they bring solar-decline themes to the Spanish capital's doom scene.
Sun of the Sleepless have been crafting black metal and ambient from the German underground since 1999, making them one of the longer-running atmospheric black metal projects in the country. Their quarter-century career has produced a body of work that blends harsh extremity with contemplative, nocturnal soundscapes.
Sun Rot is a sludge/doom metal band from Tempe, Arizona, formed in 2019, channeling the punishing heat and decay of the desert Southwest into slow, oppressive riffing and corrosive low-end tone.
Sun Scarred is an experimental post-metal band from Cincinnati, Ohio, formed in 2024, pushing metal's textural and structural boundaries through unconventional song architecture and atmospheric density.
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