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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)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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Suburban Chicago groove and thrash outfit combining Pantera-influenced groove metal with thrash sharpness during their short-lived run in the early 2020s.
Stoner metal band from Wurzburg, Germany, active since 2009. Originally rooted in punk rock, Captain Duff evolved toward heavier influences like Motorhead, Pentagram, and Orange Goblin, delivering a rough soundtrack for wild nights and wasted days.
Power metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2024. They deliver melodic, anthemic power metal from the Greek capital.
Lake Charles, Louisiana thrash/death crossover band blending genre aggression with comedic and violent lyrical themes before calling it quits.
Boston progressive and power metal act bringing melodic grandeur and genre ambition to the classic power metal tradition, with swashbuckling imagery built into their identity.
Heavy metal band from Vicenza, Italy, active since 2013. Captain Kill delivers straightforward, riff-driven traditional metal from the Veneto region.
Jonesboro, Arkansas sludge metal project spending the 2010s working through themes of hatred and inner struggle in the isolationist tradition of heavy, feedback-soaked sludge before going silent.
Maine death metal outfit active in the mid-to-late 1990s on Rattle Snake Records, playing straightforward death metal before disbanding — distinct from the Minnesota thrash act of the same name.
Doom and drone metal project from Frankfurt, Germany, formed in 2014. They craft massive, slow-moving walls of sound that explore the heaviest extremes of low-tempo metal.
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