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Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
Featured Black Metal Album
Death Doom Punks (2026)
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Tribute to Erik Lindmark (Deeds of Flesh) (2020)
05/11 @ Three Links Deep Ellum, Dallas
Featured Power Metal Album
Curse of the Crystal Coconut (2020)
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Death, groove, and thrash metal band from Yvetot in Normandy, France, active since 2016. They deliver a versatile blend of extreme metal styles from the Seine-Maritime region.
Death metal, groove metal, and melodic death metal band from Loimaa, Finland formed in 2019. They bring a diverse blend of death metal styles from southwestern Finland.
Death/groove metal act from Aachen, Germany, with roots stretching back to 1980, making them one of the oldest metal bands in the country. Their four-decade career represents an extraordinary longevity in the German extreme metal underground.
When Ex Machina emerged in 2012 from London, they brought with them a sound rooted in groove metal and industrial metal — all factory-floor percussion married to distorted guitar punishment. Their catalog reveals a band unafraid to explore the darker corners of heavy music.
Straddling the line between death metal and groove metal, this Russian actfrom Stavropol fuses HM-2 filth and d-beat fury in the old Swedish tradition into a cohesive whole. They've been at it since 2019, and their approach favors no-frills brutality over technical showmanship.
Death/groove metal act from Dresden, Germany, merging death metal's guttural ferocity with groove metal's rhythmic punch since 2020. Their approach creates a dynamic blend of extremity and headbanging heaviness from Saxony's capital.
Groove metal, metalcore, and thrash metal band from Tampere, Finland formed in 2024. They bring a fresh modern metal assault from Finland's industrial capital.
Progressive and groove metal project from Belgium, formed in 2020, blending intricate progressive structures with the rhythmic punch of groove metal. Their sound balances cerebral complexity with physical, riff-driven heaviness.
Part of Italy's underrated but thriving metal community, this act channels groove metal, metalcore, and thrash metal with a focus on breakneck tempos and razor-sharp riff attacks. Formed in 2020, based in Milan, every track is a masterclass in controlled chaos and kinetic energy.
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