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Featured Album
Slaughter & Apparatus - A Methodical Overture (2023)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
With Oden On Our Side (2015)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Versus the World (2015)
05/12 @ 1st SUMMIT ARENA at Cambria County War Memorial, Johnstown
Featured Death Metal Album
Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
The Jester Race (Black Ash-Inheritance Version) (2022)
05/12 @ The Rave - Eagles Club, Milwaukee
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Pagan black metal project rooted from Bassano del Grappa (Vicenza), formed in 2014. Folk instrumentation and nature-worship themes intertwine with blast beats and tremolo picking, creating a bridge between old-world mysticism and modern extremity.
Iași-based folk metal act active since 2006, weaving traditional melodies and acoustic instrumentation into a heavy metal framework. Their compositions bridge musical heritage with the power of electric amplification.
Raw black metal project from Belgium, active since 2014. They operate in the lo-fi, unvarnished tradition of raw black metal.
Progressive death metal outfit from Voronezh, formed in 2015. Their material navigates shifting tempos, unconventional song structures, and intricate instrumental interplay while maintaining the genre's essential aggression.
German avant-garde black metal band from Klingenthal in Saxony, formed in 2021. They push black metal into unconventional, experimental territory from the Erzgebirge mountains.
German black metal band from Berlin, formed in 2024. Named after the Italian word for darkness, they channel Mediterranean-tinged black metal from the capital.
Catania-based doom metal act active since 2013, crafting monolithic compositions built on slow-burning riffs and an atmosphere of pervasive heaviness. Their patient approach to songwriting lets each chord ring with crushing finality.
Danish raw black metal project formed in 2018. They deliver stripped-down, primitive black metal in its rawest form.
Death metal outfit from Hungary, formed in 2012. Their sound draws from the genre's foundational playbook of crushing riffs, blast beats, and growled vocals, executed with the conviction of dedicated extremists.
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