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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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Doom/death/black metal project from Rakovnik, Czech Republic, weaving together three of extreme metal's darkest threads since 2021. Their medically abbreviated name belies a sound that is anything but clinical in its raw, oppressive heaviness.
Part of Portugal's intimate but fiercely devoted metal community, this act channels black metal and death metal with a focus on tremolo-picked fury and blast-beat savagery. Formed in 2023, based in Lisbon, raw production values serve the music's unvarnished intensity.
Milan, Italy — black metal and symphonic metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2019, they deal in cinematic sweep and operatic vocals over thundering metal arrangements. Their catalog reveals a band unafraid to explore the darker corners of heavy music.
Raw black metal project from the medieval Franconian town of Dinkelsbuhl, Germany, formed in 2022. Their approach channels the genre's most primitive and unrefined tendencies through a deliberately lo-fi sonic aesthetic.
Norwegian black metal act, active since 2023 delivering second-wave ferocity filtered through modern production sensibilities. Rooted in Scandinavia's dark musical heart, their recordings conjure desolation through sheets of tremolo-picked guitar.
Progressive black metal act from Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, expanding the genre's boundaries through ambitious compositions since 2015. Their Greek name, meaning "ecstasy" or "standing outside oneself," reflects a transcendent approach to black metal.
Black metal act from Bonn, Germany, channeling raw, uncompromising darkness from the former German capital since 2017. Their approach stays true to black metal's core principles of atmospheric hostility and tremolo-driven intensity.
Swedish black metal act, active since 2024 delivering second-wave ferocity filtered through modern production sensibilities. Rooted in the country that refined both melody and brutality, their recordings conjure desolation through sheets of tremolo-picked guitar.
Black, death, and gothic metal band from Heraklion, Crete, Greece, active since 2018. They blend multiple extreme metal styles from the largest city on the island of Crete.
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