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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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Raw black metal project from Russia, active since 2019. The project delivers lo-fi, unpolished black metal in the underground tradition.
Sestri Levante heavy/thrash metal act from the Ligurian Riviera, formed in 2022. Their seaside Genoan-province origins provide scenic contrast to the crushing heaviness they deliver through a traditional thrash-inflected approach.
Krasnodar heavy/progressive metal act from southern Russia, active since 2014. A decade of output from this Black Sea region city has produced a style that balances traditional metal accessibility with progressive ambition.
Owl Coven emerges from France's Pays de la Loire region with crushing doom and sludge metal that favors slow, punishing heaviness over speed. Their thick, feedback-laden sound evokes oppressive weight and ritualistic intensity.
Northern Irish act Owlcrusher from Banbridge fuses black metal's tremolo-driven atmospherics with the crushing weight of doom and sludge metal. Their hybrid sound creates compositions that alternate between blast-driven fury and glacially paced devastation.
Melodic and progressive doom/sludge/post-metal band from Oulu in northern Finland, active since 2015. Their 2015 debut Waves features four extended instrumental compositions blending atmospheric post-rock with heavy post-metal, recorded and mixed by Juha Simola.
Black metal band with melodic hardcore influences from Kraków, Poland, active since 2016. Their nature-referencing name frames a blend of black metal atmosphere with hardcore's emotional urgency.
Athens thrash/death metal act active since 2013, part of the Greek capital's diverse extreme metal underground. Over a decade they have delivered a punishing blend of thrash velocity and death metal weight.
Groove/thrash/heavy metal band from Miguelturra in central Spain's La Mancha region, one of the longer-running acts with roots dating to 2004. Over two decades they have blended groove metal's rhythmic punch with thrash speed and heavy metal power.
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