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Featured Album
La Grande Mascarade - EP (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
No More Hollywood Endings (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
The Pursuit of Vikings: Live at Summer Breeze (Main Stage) (2018)
05/09 @ Coca-Cola Roxy, Atlanta
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Gossamer Wings of Illusion (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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Brutal death metal band from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, formed in 2013, bringing crushing death metal from the Canary Islands. They prove that extreme metal thrives even in the subtropical Atlantic.
Straddling the Bavarian-Hessian border from the Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg corridor, Provocation has been dealing brutal death metal since 2019. Their Main River valley setting provides an unexpected home for some of the region's most punishing sonic output.
Brutal death metal and grindcore band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, formed in 2013, delivering over a decade of psychically deranged extremity from the northern capital. They bring mind-bending brutality to the Petersburg scene.
Brutal death metal band from Moscow and Saratov, Russia, formed in 2016, performing sonic lobotomies through devastating brutal death metal. They bring clinical precision to the Russian brutal death metal scene.
Since 2011, Pulverize has been dealing in the most uncompromising end of death metal from their Lille base. Their brutal approach draws from the Suffocation and Devourment playbook — guttural vocals, slamming breakdowns, and relentless percussive punishment.
Belgian grindcore veterans from Eupen who emerged in 1997 from the ashes of Rising Nation, recording their debut Frankenstein in 2000. With six studio albums and multiple lineup changes across nearly three decades, they remain a persistent force in European grindcore.
Deathcore and brutal death metal band from Kadiivka, Ukraine, formed in 2016, delivering nearly a decade of unfiltered extremity from the Luhansk Oblast. They bring raw brutality from eastern Ukraine.
Brutal death metal and goregrind turned black metal and grindcore band from Moscow, Russia, active since 2008, whose gloriously grotesque name matches their sonic evolution. Nearly two decades of extreme mutation from the Russian capital.
Slam and brutal death metal band from Yekaterinburg, Russia, formed in 2025, delivering graphic surgical extremity from the Ural capital. They represent the newest wave of Russian slam death metal.
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