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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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Atmospheric and melodic black metal project from Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, taking listeners into a world full of melancholy and intensity since 2024. Their debut release Anxiety I captures the project's emotionally charged approach to post-black metal.
Upcast is a thrash/groove metal band from Moscow, Russia, delivering riff-driven metal with an aggressive edge since 2023. The project channels heavy, groove-laden thrash from the Russian capital.
Death metal and grindcore band from O Carballino in Galicia, Spain, delivering devastating extremity since 2013. Their sound combines the grinding blasts and brevity of grindcore with death metal's structural depth and guttural vocals.
Upheaval is a heavy metal band from Bielsko-Biala, Poland, active since 2010 and rooted in classic heavy metal songwriting. The band delivers traditional riff-driven metal from the southern Polish industrial region.
Upir is a black metal project from the Gdansk/Koscierzyna area of Poland, channeling vampiric and winter-themed atmospheres through raw black metal since 2020. The project draws on pagan and occult imagery with a lo-fi, underground aesthetic.
Metalcore band from Manchester, England, active since 2012, delivering atmospheric and dynamic metalcore from one of England's most musically fertile cities. Their sound channels metalcore's blend of melody and aggression.
Upon the Altar is a blackened death metal band from Tarnow, Poland, delivering what they describe as a pure evil tribute to nineties extreme metal. Their prolific output since 2020 includes the albums Absit ab Ordine Luminis and Profanation's Vapor alongside multiple demos and splits.
Melodic death metal and metalcore band from Southampton, England, active since 2012 with over a decade of experience. Their sound bridges the melodic richness of Scandinavian death metal with the energetic hooks of metalcore.
Groove metal and crossover band from Macclesfield in Cheshire, England, active since 2017. Their sound combines groove metal's rhythmic heaviness with crossover's punk-influenced urgency.
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