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Featured Album
Slaughter & Apparatus - A Methodical Overture (2023)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
With Oden On Our Side (2015)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Versus the World (2015)
05/12 @ 1st SUMMIT ARENA at Cambria County War Memorial, Johnstown
Featured Death Metal Album
Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
The Jester Race (Black Ash-Inheritance Version) (2022)
05/12 @ The Rave - Eagles Club, Milwaukee
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Post-black/doom metal band formed in 2026 with members spanning three countries, anchored in Iceland by Marek Stanislawczyk and Gudmundur Oli Palmason. Their releases including "Basalt Towers" channel the stark, volcanic landscapes of Iceland through heavy doom and post-black metal atmospheres.
Blackened doom/sludge metal band from La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, formed in 2022 as a five-piece featuring Alex Straubhaar and Julien Floch among others. Their 2022 album "Luhlae x The Witch" was originally composed as a cine-concert score for Robert Eggers' film "The Witch," commissioned by the festival 2300 Plan 9.
Psychedelic stoner/doom metal band from London, England, formed in 2018 with releases including "Wooden Lungs" and their self-titled album. The band channels heavy, riff-laden stoner doom with psychedelic overtones, conjuring a hazy, head-nodding heaviness.
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