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Proof (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
Death Atlas (2019)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Conquer (feat. Josh Mowery of Catch Your Breath) (2025)
05/21 @ 170 Russell, Melbourne
Featured Groove Metal Album
Evidence (2023)
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Centennial, Colorado melodic black/death metal act blending atmospheric sweep with genuine aggression since 2020, drawing on the melodic black metal tradition while keeping the extremity sharp.
Omaha brutal death metal outfit active since 2018, representing the Midwest underground with dense, punishing riffwork and guttural extremity delivered with workmanlike intensity.
Seattle death metal act formed in 2010, drawing on the Pacific Northwest's rich underground scene to deliver straightforward, riff-driven extremity with consistent dedication to the genre's core values.
A nascent doom and sludge outfit from Albany drawing on the slow, crushing weight of funeral doom paired with the corrosive grit of sludge, named after the legendary Arthurian dagger.
Columbia, SC doom and sludge act channeling the swampy, southern-tinged heaviness that the region breeds naturally, building slow-crawling riffs into dense, oppressive walls of sound with a mythology-laced edge.
A Syracuse heavy metal band with over two decades of momentum, delivering melodic, hard-hitting metal with a polished edge and strong songwriting rooted in the classic American heavy metal tradition.
A newly formed New Jersey black metal project with a name evoking the Protestant Reformation, suggesting a cerebral and historically minded approach to raw, atmospheric black metal.
Pittsburgh heavy metal outfit drawing on the city's blue-collar rock tradition to deliver punchy, riff-forward metal with a classic sensibility and the kind of no-frills directness the Steel City is known for.
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.
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