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Featured Album
Manual Manic Procedures (2024)
Featured Grindcore Album
Monolith of Inhumanity (2012)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
The Dirt I'm Buried In (Live in Paris) (2023)
05/02 @ The Clyde Theatre - Fort Wayne, IN, Fort Wayne
Featured Doom Metal Album
The Bestiary (2025)
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Death metal act from Vila Nova de Santo André on Portugal's Alentejo coast, active since 2010. Canchroid has spent over a decade delivering crushing death metal from southern Portugal.
Groove-thrash band from Barletta in Puglia, southern Italy, active since 2005. Cancrena — Italian for 'gangrene' — has delivered two decades of aggressive, riff-driven metal.
Death-groove act from Stavropol in the North Caucasus, formed in 2017. Cancroid channels rhythmically-driven extreme metal from southern Russia.
Tahlequah, Oklahoma black metal project active since the early 2020s, operating in the raw and uncompromising vein of the underground scene.
Doom metal band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2016. They craft slow, crushing doom steeped in heavy atmospheres from the Catalan capital.
Portuguese black metal project formed in 2016. Candelabrum crafts ritualistic, atmospheric black metal steeped in occult tradition.
Brutal death metal band from Wurzburg, Germany, formed in 2018. They deliver punishing, guttural extremity from the Franconian wine country.
Melodic death metal band from Erftstadt, Germany, formed in 2018. They blend the melodic sensibility of Scandinavian death metal with the aggression of the genre's heavier side.
American black metal project active since 2019, dwelling in the raw and hostile corridors of the underground tradition.
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