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Featured Album
Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
Featured Sludge Metal Album
AMENRA "Song To The Siren" by This Mortal Coil (written by Tim Buckley) (2021)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Featured Doom Metal Album
De Doorn (2022)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Rehab (24-bit HD Audio, Bonus Tracks Version) (2023)
05/25 @ The Theater at MGM National Harbor, National Harbor
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German symphonic metal band from Voerde, formed in 2013. They layer orchestral arrangements and sweeping vocals over heavy metal instrumentation.
Since 2018, this Swedish heavy metal act has kept the flame of traditional metal burning from Linköping. Their sound is built on the genre's bedrock: powerful riffs, commanding vocals, and unwavering commitment.
Black metal project from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, active since 2019. Their releases "Ocean's Exquisite Mist" and "Absence of Beauty Brings Void and Ugliness Into the Heart" signal a poetic, atmospheric approach to Bosnian black metal.
Athens-based southern metal act active since 2019, injecting blues-influenced swagger and whiskey-soaked groove into their heavy, riff-driven sound. Their music channels the spirit of American Southern rock and metal through a Greek perspective.
German epic doom metal band from Bayreuth, formed in 2021. They craft grandiose, slow-burning epic doom metal befitting their Wagnerian hometown.
French black metal band from Bordeaux, formed in 2016. They deliver stormy black metal from the Gironde region.
Thrash metal outfit from Patras, formed in 2020. Their compositions hit with the urgent intensity that defines the genre at its best: fast, tight, and unapologetically aggressive.
Haugesund-based doom metal act active since 2013, crafting monolithic compositions built on slow-burning riffs and an atmosphere of pervasive heaviness. Their patient approach to songwriting lets each chord ring with crushing finality.
German groove/thrash metal band from Henstedt-Ulzburg near Hamburg, formed in 2014. They blend groove metal's rhythmic punch with thrash metal's speed and intensity.
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