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Featured Album
ManiaCult (2021)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
The Seed of Singularity (2024)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
All Hell's Breaking Loose Down at Little Kathy Wilson's Place - Remastered (2025)
05/24 @ The Waterloo Music Bar, Blackpool
Featured Black Metal Album
Death Doom Punks (2026)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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Moscow's Sickera play heavy metal from the Russian capital since 2013. Their name and capital-city origins channel metropolitan intensity into traditional metal compositions.
Sickflesh deal in brutal death metal and goregrind from Nachod, combining inhuman gutturals with grinding blasts of noise. Their approach embraces the most extreme end of the death metal spectrum without compromise.
Moscow's Sickle of Dust craft atmospheric black metal from the Russian capital since 2017. Their name combining the harvesting tool with decay channels agricultural mortality into compositions of immersive darkness.
Catania's Sicklown navigate post-metal and sludge from volcanic Sicily since 2001. Over two decades, they have built a sound that pairs atmospheric breadth with the crushing weight that their surroundings inspire.
Sickness Within blend metalcore with thrash metal from the Silkeborg/Aarhus area of central Jutland, combining modern breakdowns with old-school velocity. Active since 2010, they bring internal infection to the Danish heavy music scene.
Sicknote play heavy metal from the northern Finnish city of Oulu, channeling classic metal energy with the medical-excuse humor their name suggests. Active since 2016, they bring traditional metal to the Ostrobothnia scene.
Sickoticks deliver thrash metal from Sabadell near Barcelona, channeling aggressive velocity from the Catalan industrial heartland. Active since 2017, they bring tick-borne fury to the Valles Occidental metal scene.
Dzerzhinsk's Sickrites pair black and death metal from the chemical-industry city since 2010. Their diseased-ritual name and toxic-industrial origins channel the ceremony of illness into compositions of dual-genre extremity.
Cherepovets' Side of Despondency channel depressive black metal from the Vologda steel city since 2012. Their name of emotional collapse and industrial origins channel the despair of Russia's steel-smelting heartland into atmospheric compositions.
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