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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)
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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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Vilnius epic folk/Viking metal act formed in 2014, channeling pre-Christian Baltic traditions through heavy metal's powerful framework. Their thematic focus on ancient Lithuanian pagan heritage connects extreme metal to deep cultural roots.
Progressive/heavy metal solo artist from the Netherlands, active since 2020. The project delivers technically ambitious progressive heavy metal.
Ronces is an atmospheric black metal project from France, active since 2013. Named after the French word for 'brambles,' the project channels nature-inspired atmospheric black metal.
Sludge/post-metal band from Oslo, Norway, active since 2014. Their approach blends sludge metal's crushing heaviness with post-metal's atmospheric expansiveness from the Norwegian capital.
Ronja is a stoner metal/rock band from Aalborg in northern Jutland, Denmark, formed in 2021. The band delivers heavy, fuzz-drenched stoner metal from Denmark's fourth-largest city.
Raw black metal project from Mikhaylovsk, Russia, active since 2017. Their forest-themed name accompanies lo-fi black metal from the Stavropol region.
Rooky is a neoclassical progressive metal and rock project from Berlin, Germany, active since 2013. The project blends classical virtuosity with progressive metal complexity from the German capital.
Room is a thrash/groove metal band from Madrid, Spain, active since 1990. Over three decades of thrash make them one of the longest-running metal acts in the Spanish capital.
Donetsk metalcore and groove metal act formed in 2019, delivering aggressive breakdowns and rhythmic heaviness from eastern Ukraine. Their modern approach channels the physical impact of both traditions.
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