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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Playlist: The Very Best of Corrosion of Conformity (2010)
05/09 @ Mr Smalls Theatre, Millvale
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Oxfordshire grindcore band formed in 2006, delivering an uncompromising mix of thrash, death, and ferocious grind. Their extensive catalog from Lamb of Sacrifice through To Grind and Pound pairs heavy grooves with blast beats and chaotic intensity.
Stoner/doom metal band from Guildford in Surrey, active since 2017. Their releases including the self-titled album and Resonate deliver low-and-slow heaviness from the southern English underground.
Heavy/doom metal and punk band from Southend-on-Sea, active since 2016, blending Godflesh, Celtic Frost, Black Flag, and Gary Numan into an industrial-tinged assault. Their prolific catalog from Corpsemeat through Death Is Forever delivers building-shaking riffs with uncompromising intensity.
Sludge metal outfit from Wrocław, formed in 2015. Their music moves with the grinding inevitability of industrial machinery, all corroded tones and barely controlled fury.
Spanish stoner metal band from Ferrol in Galicia, formed in 2011. They breathe dragon-fire stoner metal from the Atlantic naval city of northwestern Spain.
Stoner doom act from Barcelos, formed in 2015. Their music moves at a glacial pace through layers of fuzz and psychedelic textures, inviting the listener into a trance-like state of heavy meditation.
German black/gothic metal band from Berlin, formed in 2011. They merge black metal's aggression with gothic metal's dark aesthetic from the capital's diverse underground.
Stockholm-based stoner/doom outfit active since 2019, conjuring thick clouds of fuzz-laden riffage and hypnotic, groove-driven compositions. Their sound channels the haze of 1970s proto-metal through a modern lens of distortion-worship and lysergic exploration.
French symphonic black/death metal band from the Grand Est region, formed in 2013. They layer orchestral arrangements over extreme metal from eastern France.
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