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Featured Album
Halo (2017)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Dance Devil Dance (Live at Sonic Temple) (2024)
05/02 @ The Clyde Theatre - Fort Wayne, IN, Fort Wayne
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Jacksonville progressive death metal act bringing technical ambition and melodic complexity to the Florida death metal tradition.
Black metal project from Duisburg, Germany, formed in 2021. They deliver dark, atmospheric black metal steeped in occult themes from the industrial Ruhr Valley.
Virginia doom metal outfit trudging through slow, heavy territory since the late 1990s, carrying on the tradition of funeral-paced riffing and desolate atmospherics.
Black metal project from Wrocław, formed in 2025. Capricornus channels raw black metal from the capital of Lower Silesia.
Capricornus Tenebrarum is a black metal band from Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, active since 2009. The band focuses on Satanic themes and has released several full-lengths through Dead Center Productions, including Sathanas in Gloriam and Et Demonivm at Aeternvm. A live recording from 2016 documents their presence in the Hermosillo underground scene.
Born as an acoustic jam project in Birmingham, Alabama in 2004, Capsized retooled into a full-volume sludge and post-metal force by 2012, appearing on Weedian's 2024 compilation.
New Orleans doom and stoner metal outfit active from 2017 before splitting up, drawing from the Crescent City's deep well of heavy, swampy riff traditions.
Stoner metal band from Egersund on Norway's southwestern coast, formed in 2018. Captain Caravan delivers heavy, fuzzed-out grooves from Rogaland county.
Burlington, Vermont heavy metal and hard rock act that released at least one single before dissolving.
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