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Featured Album
Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
Grave Mounds And Grave Mistakes (Luxus) (2018)
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Versus the World (Bonus Edition) (2015)
05/12 @ 1st SUMMIT ARENA at Cambria County War Memorial, Johnstown
Featured Black Metal Album
Death Doom Punks (2026)
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Brutal death metal and hardcore band from Halle, Belgium, bringing slam in faces since 2011. Their releases including 'Mistake Of Nature' deliver punishing, aggressive extremity with members drawn from the Belgian grind and slam underground.
Death metal and grindcore band from Arrasate-Mondragon in the Basque Country, Spain, active since 2006. With two decades of grinding extremity, they deliver chaotic aggression from the Basque industrial heartland.
One-man brutal deathgrind project from Munchendorf, Austria, operated entirely by Daniel since 2020. With releases like 'The Child Cemetery,' 'Loss of Sanity,' and 'Rebirthed Revived Rekilled,' the project maintains a relentless output of grinding brutality.
Atmospheric black-death metal band from Sheffield, England, formed in 2018. They blend atmospheric black metal with death metal from the Steel City.
Melodic death metal and metalcore band from Vitoria-Gasteiz in the Basque Country, Spain, formed in 2017. They blend melodic sensibilities with metalcore dynamics from the Basque capital.
Death metal and grindcore band from England, formed in 2023. They deliver chaotic, grinding extremity.
Melodic death-power metal band from Espoo/Helsinki, Finland, active since 2012. They carry the spirit of Finnish melodic death metal with power metal hooks and dynamic songwriting.
Death-doom-grind band from the Meinersen/Gifhorn area of Lower Saxony, Germany, active since 2012. They blend the crushing weight of doom with the aggression of death metal and the chaos of grindcore.
Blackened death metal act originally from Vilnius, Lithuania, formed in 2021. Children of the Void delivers dark, nihilistic extreme metal from the Baltic region.
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