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Featured Album
ManiaCult (2021)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
The Seed of Singularity (2024)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
All Hell's Breaking Loose Down at Little Kathy Wilson's Place - Remastered (2025)
05/24 @ The Waterloo Music Bar, Blackpool
Featured Black Metal Album
Death Doom Punks (2026)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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German thrash metal band from Berlin, formed in 2014. They bring scorching thrash metal intensity to the capital's diverse metal scene.
Since 2022, this Slovenian thrash metal act has delivered high-velocity riff assaults from Ljubljana. Their sound channels the raw energy of the genre's golden era through tight musicianship.
Black metal project from Remich (early); Merzig, emerging in 2019. Their compositions draw from the wellspring of second-wave Scandinavian tradition while filtering it through the cultural context of their Luxembourgish origins.
Thessaloniki-based melodic death metal act active since 2025, threading harmonized guitar leads and memorable hooks through aggressive, double-bass-driven arrangements. Their approach balances accessibility with genuine heaviness, drawing from the Gothenburg tradition.
Asker-based death/thrash metal act active since 2014, fusing death metal's guttural intensity with thrash's riff-driven velocity and rhythmic precision. Their high-energy approach delivers the heaviness of death metal married to thrash's urgent momentum.
French stoner/sludge metal band from Annecy in the Alps, formed in 2019. They deliver ritualistic stoner-sludge from the pristine Alpine lakeside.
Russian black metal act active since 2024, channeling the genre's core tenets of tremolo-driven riffing and blast-beat fury through a Russian lens. Their recordings maintain a commitment to the raw, unvarnished aesthetic that defines underground black metal.
Enkhuizen-based heavy metal act active since 2018, delivering riff-driven compositions rooted in the genre's foundational traditions of power chords, soaring vocals, and galloping rhythms. Their sound carries the unmistakable stamp of classic heavy metal conviction.
Finnish melodic death metal band from Turku, formed in 2013. They craft melodic death metal with dark harmonic richness from Finland's oldest city.
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