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Proof (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Make It Rain / On the Other Side of Tonight (2024)
05/07 @ House of Blues Myrtle Beach, North Myrtle Beach
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Blackened progressive metal band from Baltimore, Maryland, formed in 2018, fusing the cerebral structures of progressive metal with the cold atmosphere and dissonance of black metal.
Symposion deal in death metal from Copenhagen, their name (from the Greek symposium, a drinking party with philosophical discussion) adding intellectual weight to their extreme output. Active since 2013, they bring philosophical brutality to the Danish death metal landscape.
Technical death metal band from Portland, Oregon, formed in 2013, pursuing the intricate, precision-focused end of the genre with complex arrangements and demanding instrumental execution.
Portland, Oregon doom/death metal band formed in 2013, channeling the slow, oppressive weight of death-doom in a Pacific Northwest scene better known for its black metal output.
Symptoms of Sickness, originating in Sweden before relocating to Portland, have been crafting ambient black/doom metal since 2013. Over a decade of channeling the clinical manifestation of disease into compositions of atmospheric, glacially paced darkness across two continents.
Chicago progressive/technical death metal band formed in 2025, combining the labyrinthine song structures of progressive metal with the unrelenting technicality of the modern tech-death tradition.
Black metal project from New Jersey, formed in 2013, operating in the raw and atmospheric end of the genre with a decidedly underground approach.
Heavy metal and hard rock band formed in 2013, drawing from classic metal influences in a straightforward and riff-forward style.
Los Angeles heavy metal band formed in 2024, rooted in the classic and traditional metal idiom of the city that helped define the genre's commercial and underground branches alike.
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