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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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Minnesota's Cremation fused death metal brutality with thrash metal aggression from within the Twin Cities underground scene. Their music reflected the raw, no-frills extremity of the Upper Midwest metal community.
Ferocious Heavy / Thrash Metal from Houston.
Houston's Cremator blend classic heavy metal hooks with thrash metal aggression in the tradition of Texas's deep and diverse metal scene. They bring the swagger and crunch of the Lone Star underground to every performance.
Chicago's Crematorium carved out a niche in the Midwest underground by fusing death metal's brutality with thrash metal's speed and drive. Their music reflects the uncompromising approach of the Illinois extreme metal scene.
San Francisco's Cretaceous pull from both the Bay Area thrash tradition and the brutal extremity of death metal to forge a sound rooted in prehistoric heaviness. Their music evokes the crushing force of geological time and mass extinction.
San Jose's Cretin are a grind/death institution fronted by vocalist Marissa Martinez, one of the most distinctive voices in the underground. Their music is whiplash-fast and viciously articulate, earning a devoted following since the early 2000s.
Humble, Texas's Criminally Insane bring death/thrash aggression from the Houston suburbs with a sound built on blunt force riffing and furious tempo shifts. They are a product of the deep Texas underground that values intensity above all.
Erie, Pennsylvania's Criminally Insane deliver straight-ahead thrash metal in the blue-collar tradition of the rust-belt underground. Their music keeps it fast, simple, and aggressive without pretension.
Manassas, Virginia outfit blending the melodic grandeur of power metal with the aggression of thrash, delivering anthemic riffs and high-velocity rhythm attacks in equal measure.
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