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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
Featured Black Metal Album
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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Five-piece thrash metal act from Perth, Scotland, active since 2014, playing straightforward old-fashioned thrash. Their self-titled debut features three tracks including Ragnarok and World of War.
Thrash metal band from Newport in South Wales, active since 2014. They deliver aggressive thrash metal from the Welsh underground scene.
Groove metal outfit from Pordenone, formed in 2013. Their material trades in the satisfying crunch of heavy, rhythmically driven riffs that demand involuntary neck movement.
Uncompromising death metal from Nowy Targ, active since 2022. Their material trades in the genre's heaviest traditions: cavernous vocals, churning guitar work, and percussion that hits with tectonic force.
Thrash metal outfit from Vienna, Austria, formed in 2020. They deliver punishing riffs and relentless tempos drawn from the classic thrash metal playbook.
German melodic death metal and metalcore band from Magdeburg, formed in 2024. They bring fresh melodeath energy to the Saxony-Anhalt underground.
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German black/thrash metal band from the Bavaria-Baden-Württemberg border region, formed in 2015. They deliver fast, evil black/thrash with a venomous edge.
Progressive thrash/power metal band from Reading, active since 2012. They blend the technical complexity of progressive metal with the energy of thrash and power metal.
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