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Featured Album
Butterflies (2025)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Sonic Brew 20th Anniversary Blend 5.99 - 5.19 (2019)
05/29 @ O2 Forum Kentish Town, London
Featured Groove Metal Album
Evidence (2023)
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US death/black metal band formed in 2019, taking their name from the iconic super-heavy battle tank of the Warhammer 40,000 universe.
An Austin, Texas melodic death/black metal outfit formed in 2023, blending aggressive riffing with epic fantasy themes.
Heavy Death Metal from Houston.
A Florida black/death metal act formed in 2017, contributing the track Metal of Death to the 2018 Tribute to Beherit compilation while pursuing aggressively dark occult and transgressive themes.
A death metal/deathcore band from Chesapeake, Virginia active since 2010, continuing to operate independently in the underground scene.
A melodic death metal band from Long Island, New York formed in 2006, channeling themes of internal and external struggle through the genre's melodic aggression.
A brutal death metal act from Williamson, West Virginia, Barbaric Disembowelment leans into gore and depravity as lyrical fodder, occupying the most visceral end of the genre's spectrum.
Barbaric Exsanguination operates in the punishing overlap of slam and brutal death metal, with a 2024 compilation appearance on Liminal Dread Productions' Heavy for the Hollers marking their entry into the underground.
Philadelphia death metal stalwarts Barbarism have been operating since 2004, releasing their self-produced EP Exposure to Madness in 2008 and maintaining an independent presence in the underground for two decades.
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