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Onward (2020)
Featured Progressive Death Metal Album
Christ is Risen (2025)
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Featured Death Metal (later) Album
Horror Crusade (2023)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Live From Texas (2008)
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Doom and sludge metal band from Hamburg, Germany, formed in 2020. They craft crushing, slow-burning heaviness layered with dense, oppressive atmospheres.
Raw black metal project from Carinthia, Austria, active since 2009. They strip black metal down to its most primal elements, delivering lo-fi ferocity in the tradition of the rawest underground.
Death-thrash act from Smolensk, western Russia, active since 2014. Cist delivers aggressive extreme metal from the historic border city.
Atmospheric black metal band from Devon, England, formed in 2021. They craft vast, nature-inspired black metal from the English West Country.
Black metal project from Warsaw, active since 2017. Cisza — Polish for 'silence' — channels paradoxically fierce black metal from the Polish capital.
Secaucus death/progressive metal act Citadel fuse technical death metal's precision with progressive architecture, building compositions that shift between calculated brutality and melodic expansiveness. Their sound rewards patience as much as headbanging.
Philadelphia thrash unit Citadel bring a no-nonsense Northeastern aggression to their riff-forward attack, drawing on the old-school Bay Area and East Coast scenes. They play thrash as a blunt instrument.
Moorhead, Minnesota's Citadel channel Nordic black metal fury through a Viking metal lens, crafting cold, atmospheric epics that evoke the frozen plains of the upper Midwest as much as ancient Scandinavia.
Evansville, Indiana heavy metal act Citadel Besieged plant their flag in traditional metal soil, delivering anthemic songs built on honest riffs and a love of the classic form. They wear their influences openly and without apology.
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