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Featured Album
Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
When Everything Means Nothing (Cinematic) (2021)
05/31 @ Manchester Music Hall, Lexington
Featured Progressive Metal Album
A Thousand Days (2024)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Future Sequence: Live at the Fidelitorium (2015)
05/31 @ Bourbon Theatre, Lincoln
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Founded in Buffalo in 1988, Cannibal Corpse are death metal's most commercially successful act, defining the genre's extremity with relentless brutality and grotesque lyricism across four decades.
Atlanta instrumental sludge/post-metal duo formed in 2023, contributing to the growing Southern underground with crushing, wordless heaviness.
Longmont, Colorado symphonic/melodic death metal act blending orchestral grandeur with aggressive death metal attack.
Denver death metal band active since 2019, operating in the Colorado underground.
Technical death metal act with roots stretching back to 1993 in Connecticut, eventually relocating to Florida and landing on Willowtip Records with a rigorous, psychologically themed brand of technical death metal.
California death/grind project active since 2021 on Anguished Records, operating in the brutal intersection of death metal and grindcore.
Ohio thrash/death metal band dealing in the aggressive overlap of thrash riffing and death metal intensity before splitting up.
Jacksonville progressive death metal act bringing technical ambition and melodic complexity to the Florida death metal tradition.
Lake Charles, Louisiana thrash/death crossover band blending genre aggression with comedic and violent lyrical themes before calling it quits.
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