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Featured Album
Drag Me to Hell (2021)
Featured Doom Metal Album
De Doorn (2022)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Drowned in my Loneliness (2008)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
The Thunderfist Chronicles (Deluxe Version) (2025)
05/26 @ Burton Cummings Theatre, Winnipeg
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Atmospheric black metal project from Aachen, Germany, formed in 2025, whose name means "endless emptiness" in German. Their evocative moniker captures the vast, desolate soundscapes at the heart of their atmospheric black metal vision.
Stubbornly devoted to the riff, this black metal act from London traffics in tremolo-picked fury and blast-beat savagery. Since 2024, they've built a catalog that reflects the UK's ever-evolving heavy music tradition.
Firmly rooted in black metal, this Swedish actfrom Västra Götaland delivers dissonant chord progressions shrouded in reverb-drenched malice without compromise. They've been at it since 2025, and atmosphere and hostility share equal billing in their work.
The Russian city of Moscow serves as headquarters for this doom metal, progressive metal, and sludge metal operation, whose arsenal includes Opeth-school dynamics married to modern progressive sensibility. Each release demonstrates a commitment to artistic evolution.
Metalcore band from Dadizele in West Flanders, Belgium, delivering heavy breakdowns and melodic passages since 2020. Their approach draws from the modern metalcore playbook with an emphasis on dynamic songwriting and emotional intensity.
When Endocranial emerged in 2012 from Kyiv, they brought with them a sound rooted in brutal death metal and death metal — all percussive blast-beat onslaughts and cavernous production. Low-tuned guitars and guttural vocals form the bedrock of their attack.
Progressive metal and rock project from Minsk, Belarus, crafting intricate, cerebral compositions since 2023. Their approach blends the technical ambition of progressive metal with the melodic accessibility of progressive rock.
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Brutal death metal act from the Meschede/Arnsberg/Recklinghausen area of Germany's Sauerland region, delivering medically themed extremity since 2016. Their clinical name reflects a surgical approach to the genre's most punishing and visceral forms.
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