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Featured Album
Impetus Odi (2021)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Trial By Fire (2023)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Brazen (2024)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Enemy Of God (Remastered) (2024)
05/22 @ The Paramount in concert with Northwell, Huntington
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Gothic metal band from Hamminkeln in the Lower Rhine region, Germany, formed in 2022. They craft dark, atmospheric gothic metal from the North Rhine-Westphalian countryside.
Death metal act from Drammen, southeast of Oslo, formed in 2022. Cyste delivers punishing death metal from the Buskerud region.
Black metal band from Le Pouliguen on the Loire-Atlantique coast, France, formed in 2021. They craft atmospheric black metal from the French Atlantic shore.
Black metal project from Syktyvkar, the capital of the Komi Republic in northern Russia, formed in 2018. Cyticra channels boreal black metal from the sub-Arctic taiga.
Brutal death metal band from Chemnitz, Germany, active since 2011. Cytotoxin have built a devoted following through relentless, technically proficient death metal laced with nuclear and chemical themes.
Thrash metal band from Leeds, England, active since 2013. They deliver aggressive thrash from Yorkshire.
Death metal outfit from Athens, Greece, active since 2015. Cypsis delivers crushing riffs and guttural vocals steeped in the Greek extreme metal tradition.
Thrash metal band from the port city of Rijeka, Croatia, formed in 2016. Czaar brings aggressive, riff-driven thrash to the Adriatic metal scene.
Black metal project from Poznań, formed in 2025. Czarna Jucha — a Polish blood soup — channels dark folklore through raw black metal from Greater Poland.
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