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Featured Album
Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
Featured Death Metal Album
Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Featured Sludge Metal Album
De Doorn (2021)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Soundtrack to Your Escape (The Quiet Place Version) (2022)
05/13 @ The Rust Belt, East Moline
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Death metal outfit from Norway, formed in 2013. Their sound draws from the genre's foundational playbook of crushing riffs, blast beats, and growled vocals, executed with the conviction of dedicated extremists.
Since 2012, this Russian thrash metal act has delivered high-velocity riff assaults from Smolensk. Their sound channels the raw energy of the genre's golden era through tight musicianship.
German black/thrash metal band from Leipzig, active since 2010. They wield a savage blend of black metal's raw fury and thrash metal's headbanging speed.
Spanish black metal band from Santander in Cantabria, formed in 2020. They forge dark black metal from the Atlantic coast of northern Spain.
Moscow-based funeral doom project active since 2016, stretching compositions to their absolute breaking point through glacial tempos and overwhelming sonic density. Their music moves with the slow inevitability of geological time.
Czech black/death metal band from Třinec, active since 2002, with a substantial discography including releases like Dead World Order and Genociety. Their long-running output spans over two decades of aggressive, uncompromising extreme metal.
German atmospheric black metal band from Saxony, formed in 2013. They weave ethereal atmospheres and natural imagery into a raw black metal framework.
Barnaul-based black metal act active since 2006, channeling the genre's core tenets of tremolo-driven riffing and blast-beat fury through a Russian lens. Their recordings maintain a commitment to the raw, unvarnished aesthetic that defines underground black metal.
Severodvinsk-based symphonic death metal act active since 2010, augmenting their extreme metal foundation with orchestral arrangements and cinematic scope. Their music pairs death metal's visceral aggression with lush keyboard orchestration and epic compositional ambition.
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