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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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Post-metal and sludge band from Edinburgh, Scotland, formed in 2022. They blend expansive post-metal dynamics with sludge weight from the Scottish capital.
Post-metal and sludge act from Gdynia on the Baltic coast, formed in 2020. Collapsed Tower delivers expansive, atmospheric heaviness from the Tri-City area.
Doom and post-metal band from Karlsruhe, Germany, formed in 2023. They blend the crushing weight of doom with the expansive dynamics of post-metal.
Post-metal black metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2020. They blend black metal with post-metal dynamics and atmospheric expansiveness.
Post-metal-sludge-stoner act from Faro in the Algarve, active since 2016. Crosta — Portuguese for 'crust' — delivers heavy, atmospheric post-metal from Portugal's sunny south.
Sludge and post-metal band from Ghent, Belgium, active since 2006. They layer heavy sludge textures with post-metal atmospherics, creating expansive and crushing soundscapes from one of Flanders' cultural capitals.
Post-metal and sludge act from Umeå, active since 2001. Cult of Luna is one of Sweden's most internationally acclaimed post-metal bands, pioneering atmospheric, cinematic heaviness over more than two decades.
Post-metal and progressive act from Vilnius, Lithuania, active since 2017. Cunabula — Latin for 'cradle' — crafts expansive, atmospheric post-metal from the Baltic capital.
Post-metal death-sludge act from Warsaw, active since 2014. Czerń — Polish for 'blackness' — merges atmospheric post-metal with crushing death and sludge elements.
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