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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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Thrash metal band from Doboj, Bosnia and Herzegovina, delivering aggressive riff-driven metal since 2008. They are among the longer-running metal acts in the Bosnian scene, keeping the spirit of old-school thrash alive in the Balkans.
Death metal band from Poland, formed in 2020, whose Finnish name means 'born from the devil.' They bring Finnish-language infernal death metal to the Polish underground.
Death metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, formed in 2017, percolating crushing death metal from the Swedish capital. They bring over eight years of heaviness to the Stockholm scene.
Black metal band from Reykjavik, Iceland, formed in 2022, named after the Proto-Indo-European thunder god. They bring ancient mythological fury through black metal from the land of fire and ice.
Melodic black metal band from Slovakia, formed in 2025, bringing freshly forged melodic black metal to the Slovak underground. They represent the newest wave of Slovak black metal.
Belgian black speed metal band from Namur, self-described as hailing from "Bhellgium," combining the darkness of black metal with the velocity of speed metal. They emerged in 2021 with a raw demo that set the tone for their aggressive sonic assault.
An Emsland-based project since 2019, Permutation explores the intersection of melodic death and black metal through ever-shifting arrangements. Their name aptly describes their approach — constantly rearranging genre elements into new configurations.
Progressive metal band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2018, building intricate progressive metal compositions from the Catalan capital. They bring technical ambition and creative vision to the Spanish progressive metal scene.
Progressive and stoner metal band from Budapest, Hungary, formed in 2023, named after a genus of plant parasites. They blend progressive complexity with stoner metal's heavy grooves.
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