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Featured Album
Older Than The Gods Single (2023)
Featured metallic hardcore Album
The Commitment To Permanence (2023)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
'Battle In The Swamp' (Crash Studio's Demo session (Feb 2007)) (2007)
04/23 @ Sonia, Cambridge
Featured rock and roll Album
Peace, Love, Death Metal (2004)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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Linköping atmospheric sludge metal act formed in 2022, layering brooding textures over crushing heaviness. Their atmospheric approach adds contemplative depth to sludge metal's raw power.
Technical progressive death metal band from Blackpool, England, active since 2012. They blend technical precision with progressive complexity and death metal aggression.
Heavy metal band from Poitiers, France, formed in 2024. They deliver classic heavy metal from the historic capital of Vienne.
Black metal project from Volzhsky near Volgograd, formed in 2024. Circlerage crafts black metal from the lower Volga region.
Melodic death-groove metal band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2017. They blend Scandinavian-style melodic death metal with heavy grooves and dynamic arrangements.
Symphonic black-death metal band from Nantes, France, formed in 2021. They blend symphonic grandeur with extreme metal darkness.
New Orleans trio Circling Vultvre conjures a suffocating blend of black, death, and doom metal steeped in Southern Gothic dread. Their music circles decay and darkness with relentless, unhurried menace.
Black metal band from the Nice/Toulon/Aubagne area of Provence, France, active since 2008. They deliver raw, uncompromising black metal from the French Riviera.
Black and progressive metal band from Norden in East Frisia, Germany, formed in 2020. Named after an East Frisian chieftain dynasty, Circsena blend progressive complexity with black metal darkness.
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