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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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Heavy speed metal band from Cuneo, Piedmont, active since 2013. Crystal Lake delivers high-velocity traditional metal from the Maritime Alps foothills.
Power and speed metal band from Thessaloniki, Greece, formed in 2014. They deliver fast, melodic metal from Greece's second-largest city.
Heavy and speed metal band from South Shields, England, active since 2011. Named after the famous battle, they deliver fast, powerful metal from the Tyneside.
Heavy and speed metal band from Burgos, Spain, formed in 2017. They deliver fast, powerful metal from the historic Castilian city.
Black-speed-thrash act from Lisbon, active since 2014. Cães de Guerra — Portuguese for 'dogs of war' — delivers ferocious, war-themed extreme metal from the Portuguese capital.
D.O.C. channels the reckless energy of early Teutonic speed metal from the streets of Rome, delivering whiplash-inducing riffs and breakneck tempos. Their raw, unpolished approach recalls the aggression of the mid-1980s European underground.
D3Th0N is a Bolognese speed metal outfit that tears through ferocious, high-velocity compositions rooted in the classic thrash and speed metal tradition. Their output emphasizes relentless tempo and sharp, cutting guitar work over polish or production finesse.
Damager is a speed/thrash metal band from Lyon, France, formed in 2021. They play blistering speed/thrash from southeastern France.
Damask plays a volatile mix of speed, heavy, and black metal from Volgodonsk in Rostov Oblast, active since 2019. Their city — built to house workers for a nuclear power plant — lends industrial-age intensity to their triple-genre attack.
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