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Featured Album
Slave to the Scalpel (2021)
Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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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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Corpus Christi's The Southern Revival carry on the tradition of Southern metal — heavy, bluesy, and rooted in the soil — with a sound that draws equally from Texas riff culture and the swampy stomp of the Gulf Coast. Formed in 2019, the band channels regional identity into slow-burning, groove-heavy metal.
Hutchinson, Kansas act The Space Between pursue the crushing middle ground between death metal's aggression and doom's suffocating weight, forging death-doom that moves at a glacial, deliberate pace. Formed in 2019, their sound is marked by low tunings and a relentless sense of dread.
The Spectre Beneath from Runcorn in Cheshire craft progressive and power metal that unearths phantoms from below the surface since 2019. Their spectral name drives compositions that dig deep into the musical underground of the northwest.
Olympia, Washington's The Speed of Darkness blend melodic death metal's harmonic sensibility with metalcore's dynamic structure and outright death metal brutality, crafting a sound that moves between melody and devastation with ease. Formed in 2019, the band draws from the Pacific Northwest's experimental heavy music tradition.
Boston's The Spiral Continuum arrived in 2023 as a technical death metal project committed to complex, labyrinthine song structures that spiral outward into unexpected rhythmic and harmonic territory. Operating out of a city with a deep extreme metal history, the band represents a younger generation of New England tech-death.
The Spirit from Saarbrücken have earned wide recognition for their fierce blend of black and death metal, delivering melodically rich yet brutally aggressive compositions since 2018. Their critically acclaimed work has positioned them among the most exciting extreme metal acts to emerge from the Franco-German border region.
The Split from Olomouc weave progressive metal complexity with rock accessibility, building intricate arrangements that balance technical musicianship with melodic hooks since 2013. Based in one of Moravia's oldest university cities, they bring an intellectual edge to their progressive compositions.
Prestonsburg, Kentucky's The Splitting fuse the corrosive weight of sludge metal with death metal's brutality, producing something rawer and more rural-feeling than the polished end of either genre. Active since 2015, they belong to the Appalachian underground where heaviness is measured in density and slow punishment.
The Steamrollers from Strasbourg deliver southern metal with the flattening, unstoppable force their industrial-machinery name promises since 2011. Over a decade of Dixie-soaked heaviness from the Alsatian capital — about as far from the American South as possible — they have transplanted the genre with conviction.
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