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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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Nijmegen thrash metal outfit formed in 2010, delivering aggressive speed and precision from the Netherlands' oldest city. Their sustained commitment to thrash speaks to the genre's enduring appeal.
Random Black is a NWOBHM/heavy metal band from Essex, England, formed in 2015. The band channels the classic spirit of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal from east of London.
Gothic metal and metalcore band from Athens, Greece, active since 2008. Their long-running project blends gothic atmosphere with metalcore's dynamic intensity.
Turin black/gothic metal act formed in 2010, merging atmospheric darkness with gothic grandeur from Piedmont's capital. Their dual approach weaves black metal intensity through gothic metal's dramatic and melancholic framework.
Doom/death metal band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, formed in 2024. Their approach combines doom's crushing weight with death metal's ferocity from Russia's northern capital.
Ranger is a speed metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2012. The band channels the raw velocity and energy of early 1980s speed metal from the Finnish capital.
Melodic death metal band from Moscow, Russia, active since 2014. Their approach delivers Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal from the Russian capital.
Rankelson is a NWOBHM/heavy metal and hard rock band from Cardiff, Wales, active since 2011. Over a decade of classic British metal from the Welsh capital.
Rankken is a thrash metal band from Sézanne in the Marne department of northeastern France, formed in 2018. The band delivers aggressive thrash from the Champagne region.
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