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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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Atmospheric black metal project from the Basque Country, Spain, crafting regionally rooted sonic landscapes since 2017. Their sound channels the rugged Basque terrain through dense atmospheric black metal compositions.
Italian death/doom metal band from Turin, newly formed in 2025 and merging death metal brutality with doom's crushing pace. Their name, meaning 'the deer,' brings natural imagery to their heavy sound.
Italian thrash metal/grindcore/hardcore band from Tuscany, formed in 2019 and named 'The Brotherhood of Wine.' Their convivial name contrasts with the relentless aggression of their multi-genre extreme metal assault.
Italian sludge/doom metal band from Florence, delivering crushing, abrasive heaviness since 2008. Their name, meaning 'the bill' or 'the reckoning,' signals the punishing weight of their Tuscan doom.
Spanish atmospheric sludge/doom metal band from A Coruna, delivering crushing heaviness in Spanish since 2013. Their debut 'Holons' features four sprawling tracks of doom and sludge, with compositions stretching beyond ten minutes.
Italian heavy/doom metal band from Avellino, formed in 2017 and named after a Southern Italian witch figure. Their folkloric identity channels regional mythology through heavy, doom-laden metal.
Spanish brutal death metal act from Balenyo, unleashing punishing extremity since 2017. Their sound channels the genre's most visceral elements through relentless blast beats and guttural vocals.
Belgian sludge metal band from Ghent formed in 2021, describing their sound as an antidote against self-suffocation and quietism. Their discography includes the 'Battering Ram' EP and the 'Disorder' full-length, delivering heavy, cathartic sludge.
Russian depressive/post-black metal project from Irkutsk in Siberia, newly formed in 2025. Their French name, meaning 'the night,' channels nocturnal darkness through post-black metal's atmospheric framework from deep Siberia.
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