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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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Yekaterinburg's Sarpentra merge black, death, and melodic death metal from the Ural capital since 2013. Their serpentine name and gateway-to-Asia origins channel ophidian darkness into multi-genre compositions.
Sars blend grindcore, hardcore, and death metal from Turku, their pandemic-themed name reflecting the viral intensity of their music. Formed in 2021, they bring contagious aggression to the southwestern Finnish scene.
Melodic death metal band from Kortrijk in West Flanders, formed in 2020. Their Scandinavian-influenced approach to melodic death metal adds a Belgian perspective to the genre's tradition of balancing melody with aggression.
Sasquatch unleash death metal from the Franconian city of Wurzburg, bringing cryptid-themed brutality to the Bavarian wine region. Their unlikely name for a death metal act adds a touch of the mysterious to their heavy output.
Jablonica's Satacass pair black and death metal from the small western Slovak village since 2012. Over a decade from the Zahorie region, their enigmatic name has channeled dual-genre darkness from one of Slovakia's most rural settings.
Satanchist are Czech black/thrash/death metal veterans tracing their origins back to 1992 in Prague, making them contemporaries of the first wave of Czech extreme metal. Their decades-long commitment to blasphemous extremity has made them fixtures of the Prague underground.
Satanic Torment forge black/death metal from Lahti, combining the atmospheric darkness of black metal with death metal's crushing weight. Active since 2014, they bring dual-genre torment to the Paijat-Hame scene.
Stromstad's Satanized pair death and black metal from the Norwegian border town since 2011. Over a decade from Sweden's westernmost coast, their infernal transformation name has produced compositions of dual-genre darkness at the Scandinavian crossroads.
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