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Featured Album
ManiaCult (2021)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Soundtrack to Your Escape (The Quiet Place Version) (2022)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
London Apocalypticon - Live at the Roundhouse (2022)
05/22 @ The Paramount in concert with Northwell, Huntington
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Grodno-based atmospheric and depressive black metal project active since 2009, drawing on occult and esoteric themes. Named after the infamous ceremonial magic order, the project pairs bleak, despondent passages with moments of ritual intensity.
Le Havre's Oreskah navigates the intersection of melodic death metal, brutal death metal, and metalcore with technical precision. Their songwriting balances aggressive breakdowns and blast beats with soaring melodic guitar leads and harmonized passages.
Dutch black metal project formed in 2025. The project channels raw, hostile black metal.
La Spezia stoner metal act from Liguria's eastern coast, active since 2016. Their seaside Ligurian setting infuses their fuzz-laden stoner grooves with a Mediterranean character distinct from the genre's American desert rock origins.
UK act Organic Brain Disorder grinds through death metal and grindcore with clinical brutality and surgical precision. Their short, explosive compositions channel the intensity of early Carcass and Napalm Death.
Belgian heavy metal band from Aalst, forging classic heavy metal since 2018. Their name signals the controlled chaos at the heart of their energetic, riff-driven approach.
Black/death/industrial metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2020. Their ambitious three-genre approach blends extreme metal's ferocity with industrial's mechanical textures.
Black/death metal band from Rivolta d'Adda in Italy's Cremona province, formed in 2023. Their provocative name accompanies aggressive extreme metal from the Lombardy countryside.
Thessaloniki progressive groove metal act active since 2020, applying progressive structures to groove metal's rhythmic foundation. Greece's second city has a vibrant metal scene, and this act brings compositional sophistication to its heavier end.
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