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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
Chapters of Repugnance (Deluxe Reissue) (2018)
05/11 @ Three Links Deep Ellum, Dallas
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Gossamer Wings of Illusion (2025)
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Finnish melodic death metal band from Turku, formed in 2013. They craft melodic death metal with dark harmonic richness from Finland's oldest city.
Progressive death metal outfit from Sweden, formed in 2026. Their material navigates shifting tempos, unconventional song structures, and intricate instrumental interplay while maintaining the genre's essential aggression.
French death 'n' roll and crust punk band from Besançon, formed in 2012. They combine death metal grooves with crust punk's raw urgency.
Death metal band from Millom in Cumbria, active since 2014. They bring extreme metal aggression to the remote reaches of England's northwest coast.
French death metal band from Fécamp in Normandy, formed in 2020. They deliver dark death metal from the Channel coast of northern France.
Halmstad-based melodic death metal act active since 2015, threading harmonized guitar leads and memorable hooks through aggressive, double-bass-driven arrangements. Their approach balances accessibility with genuine heaviness, drawing from the Gothenburg tradition.
German black/death metal band from Dettelbach in Franconia, formed in 2014. They forge a hostile union of black and death metal extremity from the Bavarian wine country.
Symphonic melodic death metal act from Vienna, Austria, formed in 2018. Their concept album "Dream" weaves atmospheric storytelling through intricate solos and symphonic arrangements, drawing comparisons to Wintersun and Aether Realm.
Spanish death/black metal band from Sant Feliu de Guíxols on the Costa Brava, formed in 2017. They spew bestial death/black metal from the Catalan coastline.
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