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Different Planet (2019)
Featured street punk Album
Revenge On Society (1998)
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Burger Babes...FROM OUTER SPACE! (2020)
04/25 @ Casbah-San Diego, San Diego
Featured Southern Metal Album
Doomed (2014)
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Black metal band from Stockholm, Sweden formed in 2023. Wékeras delivers fresh black metal from the Swedish capital's thriving underground scene.
Tennessee's Wëëdkiller are a nascent stoner/doom act formed in 2026, crafting slow, hazy heaviness from the fertile Southern underground where heat and humidity seem to seep into every downtuned riff. Their name and sound together point toward a band comfortable wallowing in the slow burn.
Punk, crust, and speed metal hybrid from Copenhagen, Denmark formed in 2018. Wölfblood fuses the raw fury of crust punk with speed metal's velocity into a feral, high-energy assault.
Death metal and crust band from Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany active since 2017. Wør fuses the heaviness of death metal with crust punk's raw fury from the edge of the Black Forest.
Florida's Wørsen have been sharpening a ferocious black/death/grind hybrid since 2012, compressing the blast and fury of all three extreme genres into material that is brief, ugly, and deliberately merciless. Their Floridian roots and long tenure in the underground mark them as committed extremists with no interest in accessibility.
Blistering Black / Death / Thrash Metal / Punk from Houston.
Epic Symphonic Power Metal out of Texas.
X, Y, Z is a progressive death/thrash metal project from Rosice, Czech Republic, formed in the late 1990s from the ashes of defunct band Monastery. Masterminded by multi-instrumentalist Igor Mores, who has played in bands like Hypnos and Forgotten Silence, the project blends drone, jazz, and extreme metal into experimental compositions across releases like "UnCommon Space" and "The Right Way of..."
X-Calibur is a heavy metal band from Neuchatel, Switzerland, formed in 2018. They play classic-style heavy metal with a strong emphasis on powerful riffs and anthemic songwriting in the tradition of European heavy metal.
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