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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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Black, death, and thrash metal band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2014, combining three strands of extreme metal into a terrifying sonic assault. Their occult-tinged name matches the ritualistic intensity of their music.
A Baden-Württemberg heavy metal project since 2014, Prolopower channels the foundational spirit of German heavy metal through straightforward, riff-centric compositions. Their southwestern base connects them to one of the country's most musically diverse regions.
Buchloe's Psycho Mania has been thrashing with Bavarian intensity since 2016, channeling the genre's '80s heyday through an Allgäu lens. Their Swabian market-town origins produce a sound fueled by blue-collar energy and punk-adjacent attitude.
Melodic death metal band from Rzeszow, Poland, formed in 2018, channeling disturbed visions through melodic yet aggressive death metal. They bring Scandinavian-influenced melody to the Subcarpathian region.
Death metal band from Ryazan, Russia, formed in 2015, cutting through the Russian death metal scene with a decade of blade-sharp precision. They bring sharp extremity from central Russia.
Thrash metal band from Johanneshov, Sweden, formed in 2012, delivering over a decade of psychotic thrash metal from the Stockholm suburb. They bring deranged intensity to the Swedish thrash scene.
Kassel's Promethean Fire has been forging technical melodic death metal since 2022, their mythological name evoking the theft of divine knowledge. Their Hessian base breeds compositions that balance precision picking with the genre's signature harmonic sweep.
Death metal band from Denmark, formed in 2017, exploring themes of psychological transformation through crushing death metal. Their name suggests metamorphosis of the mind, matching the intense nature of their sound.
Brandenburg's Pavianass brings irreverent thrash metal to the eastern German flatlands since 2022. Their provocative name signals a band less interested in genre orthodoxy than in delivering high-energy, tongue-in-cheek aggression.
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