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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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Basque heavy/thrash metal band from Donostia-San Sebastian, formed in 2023 and delivering aggressive riffing with Basque attitude. Their sound bridges classic heavy metal power with thrash velocity.
Czech thrash/death metal band from Prague, delivering relentless aggression since 2006. As one of Prague's longer-running extreme acts, they channel two decades of thrash and death metal intensity into their punishing sound.
London-based technical thrash metal band formed in 2022, pushing thrash metal's boundaries through technical precision. Their brain-surgery name signals the surgical, technically exacting character of their thrash.
British black metal band from Wakefield, formed in 2021 and channeling raw hostility. Their name references the violent surgical procedure, reflecting the invasive, extreme character of their sound.
Swedish extreme progressive metal band from Uppsala, active since 2004 and delivering two decades of boundary-pushing compositions. Named after the subglacial Antarctic lake, their sound channels hidden, extreme depths through technical progressive metal.
Thrash metal band from Pilsen, Czech Republic, tearing through classic thrash riffs since 2019. Their sound carries the raw energy and speed that defines the genre's most pit-ready material.
Romanian avant-garde doom metal band from Sibiu, pushing doom metal's boundaries since 2015. Their musically-referencing name signals the experimental, theory-driven character of their avant-garde approach.
French death metal band from the Pays de la Loire region, active since 2018. Their name, meaning 'Places of Hell,' signals the infernal, underworld character of their death metal.
British slam/brutal death metal band from Macclesfield, delivering punishing slams and crushing heaviness since 2019. Their no-nonsense name signals the direct, heavy-hitting assault of their slam death approach.
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