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Featured Album
Everyone's Talking! (2025)
Featured Sludge Metal Album
Blind (Expanded Edition) (2021)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Blood Dynasty (24-bit HD audio) (2024)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Eye Of The Beholder (Live At Hammersmith Odeon, London, England / October 10th, 1988) (2018)
05/27 @ Stadion Letzigrund, Zürich
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Venomous Progressive Death / Black Metal from Fort Worth.
Ohio's Crepuscular Night channel the coldest and most desolate strains of depressive black metal into minimalist, emotionally harrowing compositions. Their music sits in the bleakest corner of the American underground black metal scene.
Salt Lake City's Crepusculum combine the relentless grind of grindcore with death metal's morbid density, emerging from Utah's small but ferocious extreme metal community. Their output is fast, brutal, and uncompromising.
Los Angeles black metal act Crevasse craft bleak, frost-bitten compositions in the underground tradition, filtering darkness through an urban Southern California lens. Their work pursues raw atmosphere over polish or accessibility.
Queens, New York black and doom metal act weaving frigid, dissonant riffs together with suffocating, slow-moving passages in a sound that's as bleak as it is hypnotically heavy.
'The Luster of Pandemonium' (2005) is considered one of the most unrelentingly technical death metal albums ever recorded. Criminally obscure, the band dissolved shortly after.
Long-running atmospheric black metal project steeped in occult mysticism and ritualistic darkness, crafting dense, hypnotic compositions that blur the line between music and ceremony.
Providence, Rhode Island black metal act rooted in the raw, misanthropic tradition of the genre — sparse production, corrosive riffs, and an unflinching embrace of the underground.
Hot Springs, Arkansas extreme metal band merging black metal atmosphere with death metal brutality and deathcore breakdowns, occupying the harshest corners of the Arkansas underground.
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