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Slave to the Scalpel (2021)
Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
All Within My Hands (Live) / Nothing Else Matters (Live) (2020)
05/27 @ Stadion Letzigrund, Zürich
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Portland, Oregon progressive black metal band Barrowlands rose from the remnants of Mary Shelley and Lykaia in 2011, weaving black metal intensity with progressive textures and themes of ecological and social justice.
Lake Worth, Florida black metal band Bartholin has been active since 2009, exploring expansive and unsettling themes of space, eternity, and genocide.
A one-man blackened heavy metal project from Sidney, Ohio, Bartzabel has been active since 2020, exploring occult and fantastical themes alongside personal reflections on love and free thought.
Houston, Texas progressive thrash/power metal band Basilisk was active from 1989 to 1991, releasing a demo and appearing on a 1990 Saturn Records compilation before disbanding.
Philadelphia death/black metal band Basilysk formed in 2009 and spent over a decade exploring misanthropic and occult themes before going on hold in 2021.
A black metal project whose name means frost in Kurdish, Bastalak channels themes of Kurdish history and warfare into their music through an extreme metal lens.
St. Louis, Missouri black/thrash metal band Bastard has been active since 2011, trafficking in Satanic, murderous, and horror-soaked subject matter in the raw tradition of the genre's most confrontational acts.
A raw black metal act hailing from Virginia Beach, Bastard Altar channels the unpolished, abrasive spirit of the genre's most primitive tradition, active since 2021.
Philadelphia's Bastard Cröss fuses blackened aggression with thrash metal riffing, centering their work on themes of blasphemy and horror since forming in 2021.
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