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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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Récidive is a heavy metal band from Nice on the French Riviera, formed in 2020. Named 'Recidivism' in French, the band delivers heavy metal from the Mediterranean coast.
Régimen Secreto is a thrash metal and crossover band from Pontevedra in Galicia, northwestern Spain, formed in 2023. Named 'Secret Regime' in Spanish, the band fuses thrash with crossover punk from the Galician coast.
Régiment is a French black/death metal project formed in 2025. Named 'Regiment' in French, the project delivers extreme metal from the French underground.
Black metal project from Budapest, Hungary, with roots dating to 1991 — one of the oldest black metal acts in all of Hungary. Over three decades of black metal represent a foundational role in the Hungarian extreme metal underground.
Rêkiem is a melodic power/folk metal band from Tres Cantos near Madrid, Spain, active since 1999. Over a quarter century of activity makes them one of the veteran folk-infused power metal acts in the Spanish scene.
Rêverie is a symphonic gothic metal band from Münster in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, formed in 2020. Named after the French word for 'daydream,' the band delivers orchestral gothic metal from the Westphalian university city.
Swedish black/death metal project formed in 2019, merging atmospheric intensity with guttural extremity. Their fusion channels the darkest impulses of both genres.
Black metal project from Athens, Greece, active since 2018. Their Old Norse-styled name channels Nordic-influenced black metal from the Mediterranean.
Strömstad heavy metal act formed in 2020, whose Swedish name means 'Smoke,' delivering classic metal energy from the Norwegian border region. Their traditional approach channels heavy metal's foundational power.
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