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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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Bobadela-based gothic metal act active since 2012, interweaving dark romantic atmospheres with heavy guitar work and dramatic vocal performances. Their sound draws from the tradition of Type O Negative and Paradise Lost, balancing heaviness with melancholic beauty.
Oščadnica-based atmospheric black metal project active since 2023, layering ethereal textures and tremolo-picked melodies over blast-driven foundations. Their compositions explore vast emotional terrain through cascading guitars and immersive soundscapes.
Spanish melodic heavy metal band from Madrid, formed in 2020. They deliver blazing melodic heavy metal from the Spanish capital.
Heavy metal and hard rock band from Maesteg in the South Wales valleys, formed in 2021. They bring classic heavy metal energy and hard rock grit from the Welsh valleys.
BlackForce is a death/thrash metal band from Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The band is signed to Profane Records and addresses themes including politics, religion, and the environment in their music.
Blackgoat Holocaust was a black/thrash metal band from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, active briefly before splitting up. The band was an independent underground act exploring themes of death, lust, and destruction in the tradition of the Brazilian extreme metal underground.
BLACKGOLD are a masked London heavy band whose identity is built around the collision of nu metal, rap-metal cadence, industrial color, and modern alternative production. The group arrived with a visual language as blunt as the music: black-and-gold anonymity, theatrical masks, and songs that feel designed for immediate recognition in a live room. Tracks such as "It's Art," "Boogeyman," "On Another Level," and later material place them near the current wave of artists reclaiming turn-of-the-century heaviness without treating it as a museum piece. The guitars carry the bounce and crunch of nu metal, while the vocals move between shouted hooks, rhythmic delivery, and crowd-commanding refrains. BLACKGOLD's stage history, including support slots with larger rock and metal acts, has been central to their appeal because the songs depend on motion, bass weight, and visual impact. They fit metal-adjacent scope through riff focus and aggression, but the band also works as a statement about presentation. BLACKGOLD are most effective when the masks, slogans, and compact riffs combine into a single pressure system rather than separate gimmicks.
Finnish symphonic black metal band from Helsinki, formed in 2017. They pair orchestral grandeur with black metal ferocity from the Finnish capital.
Finnish thrash metal band from Leppävirta in Savonia, formed in 2014. They deliver fast thrash metal from the forested eastern Finnish countryside.
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