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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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Long Island, New York death metal and hardcore hybrid that emerged in 2014, blending the brute force of death metal with the urgent, confrontational energy of hardcore.
Chicago death metal band active since 1997 and one of the Midwest's most devoted practitioners of old-school horror and gore worship, building a catalog of grotesque, zombie-obsessed brutality across multiple releases.
Chicago-based act fusing melodic death metal's harmonic sensibility with the brutality of deathcore breakdowns, delivering technically precise riffwork alongside moments of punishing heaviness.
Columbia, South Carolina heavy metal veterans formed in 1990, representing the enduring spirit of the South Carolina underground during the genre's early-90s regional boom.
New Jersey death metal band formed in 1990 in South Plainfield, part of the fertile early-90s mid-Atlantic death metal scene that produced some of the genre's most aggressive regional acts.
Norman, Oklahoma death metal and deathcore band delivering a punishing combination of old-school death metal brutality and modern breakdowns, honed through over a decade in the Oklahoma underground.
Milwaukee brutal death metal outfit specializing in the genre's most extreme end — gore-drenched lyrics, guttural vocals, and dense, down-tuned riffing executed with surgical precision.
Ventura, California death metal band formed in 2016, channeling the West Coast's tradition of technically accomplished and aggressive death metal into a dark, relentlessly heavy sound.
Buffalo death metal act formed in 2013, bringing the cold, brutal spirit of the upstate New York underground to bear on riff-driven, uncompromising extreme metal.
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