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Victim of the New Disease (2018)
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Walk The Sky (2019)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Heavy metal band from Bakel in North Brabant, active since 2013. Chronic Noise delivers straightforward traditional metal from the southern Netherlands.
Thrash metal band from Aue-Bad Schlema in the Erzgebirge, Germany, formed in 2024. They bring fresh thrash aggression from the Saxon mountain region.
Seattle grindcore band Chronic Tomb delivers short, punishing blasts of noise in the Pacific Northwest underground tradition. Their music favors velocity and controlled chaos over any concession toward accessibility.
Black-thrash metal band from Frederikshavn in northern Jutland, Denmark, formed in 2024. They fuse black metal darkness with thrash metal speed.
Symphonic melodic death-power metal band from Espoo, Finland, formed in 2018. They blend the melodic sensibility of Scandinavian death metal with symphonic orchestration and power metal hooks.
Richland, Washington's Chronicler of Ardul weaves symphonic orchestration into black and death metal to construct expansive, fantastical compositions. Their music reaches for the epic and the cinematic within extreme metal's structural framework.
Utah progressive metal and djent act Chronicles builds its sound on polyrhythmic precision and tightly constructed modern metal arrangements. Their music belongs to the technically demanding, groove-anchored side of progressive metal.
Chronicode is a heavy metal band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, formed in 2016 and currently on hold. The band features a lineup including vocalist Mariana Figueiredo and guitarists Julia Pombo and Celo Oliveira, and operated as an independent act with themes centered on fighting spirit, personal change, and the consequences of wrongdoing.
Seattle brutal death metal band Chronicynic channels the Pacific Northwest underground into dense, pulverizing compositions built on guttural vocals and downtuned riff attacks. Their sound sits squarely in the relentless end of the brutal death metal spectrum.
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