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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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German death/thrash metal band from Menden, formed in 2022. They merge death metal brutality with thrash metal's aggressive velocity.
Death metal outfit from Lisbon, formed in 2021. Their sound draws from the genre's foundational playbook of crushing riffs, blast beats, and growled vocals, executed with the conviction of dedicated extremists.
German death metal and grindcore band from Essen, active since 2006. They bring nearly two decades of death-grind ferocity to the Ruhr Valley underground.
German groove/death metal band from Quedlinburg, formed in 2025. They blend groove metal's rhythmic power with death metal's guttural extremity from the Harz foothills.
Melodic death metal outfit from Orekhovo-Zuyevo, formed in 2008. Twin-guitar harmonies and soaring lead work temper the brutality of blast beats and growled vocals, creating compositions that are both punishing and anthemic.
Swedish black metal act active since 2020, channeling the genre's core tenets of tremolo-driven riffing and blast-beat fury through a Swedish lens. Their recordings maintain a commitment to the raw, unvarnished aesthetic that defines underground black metal.
Finnish sludge/doom/death metal band from Kitee, formed in 2018. They merge three crushing genres into a bloody, oppressive wall of sound from eastern Finland.
Oslo-based melodic death/thrash metal act active since 2019, combining the aggression of both genres with harmonized guitar leads and dynamic songwriting. Their sound bridges the gap between Gothenburg-style melody and thrash metal's riff-driven intensity.
Irish death metal act active since 2020, trafficking in the genre's essential currency of guttural vocals, down-tuned riffs, and relentless percussive punishment. Their compositions deliver uncompromising heaviness rooted in the old-school tradition.
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