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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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Juneau, Alaska thrash and heavy metal band formed around 2020 that released material independently before splitting up.
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.
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.
Pauls Valley, Oklahoma thrash metal outfit formed in 1990, bringing the genre's aggressive riffing and speed to the heartland during the peak years of American thrash.
Elgin speed and thrash metal band formed in 1990, operating in the fast-and-furious tradition of Midwest metal with razor-edged riffs and the breakneck energy of classic speed metal.
Brooklyn outfit pulling from doom, traditional heavy metal, and thrash to craft a sound that is equal parts crushing and driving, occupying a gritty crossroads between old-school weight and aggressive momentum.
Lansing groove and thrash hybrid built around punishing mid-tempo riffs and syncopated, headbang-inducing rhythms, blending the mechanical chug of groove metal with thrash's relentless forward drive since 2009.
Denver brutal death and grindcore band delivering unrelenting extremity at high altitude, blending the guttural density of brutal death metal with grindcore's short, savage bursts of violence and noise.
Tallahassee death-thrash act forged in Florida's fertile extreme metal soil, combining the Sunshine State's legacy of swampy, technical death metal with thrash's aggressive picking and riff-first songwriting.
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