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Featured Album
Surrender (2024)
Featured Grindcore Album
Leaders Not Followers: Part 2 (2024)
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Featured Doom Metal Album
De Doorn (Alternate Mix) (2022)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Until We Break (feat. Matty Mullins of Memphis May Fire) (2022)
04/24 @ Northcote Theatre, Northcote
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Waco-based progressive metal project Chris White explores intricate, thoughtful heavy music from Central Texas with a focus on melodic complexity and technical composition. Part of a quietly active Lone Star prog scene.
Power metal band from Turku, Finland, emerging in 2025. They deliver melodic, anthemic power metal from Finland's oldest city.
Death-doom metal band from Ptolemaida in western Macedonia, Greece, formed in 2023. They merge death metal aggression with crushing doom from the Greek mining region.
Alabama death metal act Christ deal in blunt, straightforward brutality from the American South, a region with its own tradition of extreme music running underneath the mainstream. Heavy and unadorned.
Polish melodic black metal pioneers from Morąg and later Olsztyn, with roots stretching back to 1990. Christ Agony is one of Poland's oldest and most respected black metal acts, with over three decades of blasphemous output.
Scranton, Pennsylvania sludge act Christ Chopper drag their heaviness through the working-class industrial wasteland of northeastern Pennsylvania. Thick, slow, and corrosive.
New York black metal act Christ Deception operate in the raw, adversarial tradition of the American underground, keeping their sound stripped of anything that might compromise its hostility. Bleak and confrontational.
Los Angeles raw black metal act Christ Desecration traffic in primitive, lo-fi blasphemy in the Southern California underground tradition. Nothing clean, nothing polished, nothing forgiving.
Relentless Black Metal out of Texas.
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