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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)
05/22 @ Yuengling Center, Tampa
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Thrash metal band from Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain active since 2010. They deliver raw, aggressive thrash from the Mediterranean coast of Catalonia.
Thrash metal band from Ceske Budejovice in southern Bohemia, Czech Republic, delivering high-speed aggression since 2012. Their executioner-themed name captures the lethal precision of their thrash metal assault.
Power/thrash metal act from Copenhagen, Denmark, blending anthemic power metal with thrash velocity since 2013. Their acceleration-referencing name captures the building speed and intensity of their dynamic metal.
Trondheim's metal underground has produced no shortage of heavy acts, and this death metal and thrash metal unit is among them — wielding technically precise fretwork wrapped in visceral brutality. Their recordings carry the stench of early 90s death metal worship.
Exploring the depths of power metal and progressive metal, this Italian outfit from Casarsa della Delizia has been refining their craft since 2007. Their sound hinges on odd-time signatures woven into surprisingly accessible songwriting, delivered with stubborn authenticity.
Part of the Gothenburg school's homeland, this act channels death metal with a focus on guttural vocals and churning downtuned riffs. Formed in 2010, based in Gothenburg, expect nothing but full-bore death metal savagery.
Grindcore outfit from Bern, Switzerland, delivering blistering blasts of chaotic noise and speed since 2015. Their medically themed name reflects a surgical precision applied to the genre's most intense and visceral sonic extremes.
Firmly rooted in death metal, this Italian actfrom Varese delivers technically precise fretwork wrapped in visceral brutality without compromise. They've been at it since 2024, and their recordings carry the stench of early 90s death metal worship.
When Exequies emerged in 2015 from Tilburg, they brought with them a sound rooted in death metal — all percussive blast-beat onslaughts and cavernous production. Low-tuned guitars and guttural vocals form the bedrock of their attack.
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