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APMD (All Pigs Must Die) is a band committed to uncompromising sonic warfare. Its sound and lyrics assault the listener in a fury of blackened death filled anthems. Be it Metal, Hardcore or Punk, these things do not matt...
Amoral – ”Classic Rock of the 21st Century”!
Amoral is a band established by founders Ben Varon and Juhana Karlsson in Helsinki, Finland in the late 90's.
The band's production can be classified as technical, p...
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Black Breath are from Seattle and play fast and loud. A brand new album titled "Sentenced to Life" (released by Southern Lord Records) will be available at the showcase.......
Formed by drummer Rafa Martinez (ex-16, ex-Acid King) and guitarist/vocalist Jason Landrian (ex-Cavity), BLACK COBRA catapulted themselves onto the scene in 2001 with their ravenous, upbeat and ultimately unique style of...
One year in a dog’s life equals seven for a human. Dog years are a lot like touring musician years: Being on the road and learning from more seasoned bands, playing music every night, traveling together every day, a lo...
Founded by three teenagers in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1982, Corrosion of Conformity began as an underground band and went on to transform heavy music, challenging boundaries and serving as what Decibel Magazine called...
Some metal bands barely last 10 years, much less 15 years. If a band does get to the decade-and-a-half mark, they're usually sputtering out or are teetering on their last, diseased and ready-to-give out legs. Rare is the...
Based out of San Francisco, CA, Deafheaven started as an isolated project between frontman George Clarke and guitarist Kerry McCoy. After sending the demo to various blogs and receiving overwhelmingly positive reception,...
Possibly the hottest new band on the British scene, THE DEFILED are now ready to show the rest of the world why metalheads up and down the UK are flocking to their shows and have nominated them in the Metal Hammer Golden...
DevilDriver tear their way through heavy metal again with Beast, the band's fifth album for Roadrunner Records, which is an exorcism of animalistic, primal hooks, thunderous percussion and propulsive thrashing. While man...
EARLY GRAVES formed in the Bay Area in early 2008 and have since released two full lengths, both on Metal Blade Records' imprint, Iron Clad Recordings. The band's sound has been described as a mixture of old school Swedi...
With a heavy-handed approach and a sound that crashes like thunder, HIGH ON FIRE has put the power back in 'power-trio'. Less a band than a supersonic exercise in conquest by volume and sheer heaviness, the band has burn...
When it comes to ripping young metal bands, few—perhaps none—rip harder than HOLY GRAIL. Formed in Southern California in 2008 when vocalist James Paul Luna and drummer Tyler Meahl escaped from Pasadena metal squadro...
When it comes to ripping young metal bands, few—perhaps none—rip harder than HOLY GRAIL. Formed in Southern California in 2008 when vocalist James Paul Luna and drummer Tyler Meahl escaped from Pasadena metal squadro...
Hailing from the streets of Brooklyn, HULL has yet again emerged with a creation to outlive the ages. Hard at work since the release of their debut album, Sole Lord, in 2009, ideas were envisioned and the mighty wind of...
mpending Doom are back with their third and most impressive album There Will Be Violence. Since the release of Nailed. Dead. Risen. in 2007 the band has refined their style to an almost polished sheen; and if their previ...
The Danish tech metal band, THE INTERBEING, originated back in 2001 when vocalist Dara Toibin, guitarist Torben Pedersen and bassist Jacob Aa. Hansen shared a vision to develop an innovative soundscape influenced by seve...
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- Brothers Jesse & Shane Matthewson have cemented the core of KEN mode for the past twelve years
- Recorded fourth full length, ‘Venerable’, with Kurt Ballou (Converge, Trap Them, Torche, etc) Aug 2010, was mastered...
Since 2005, Maine’s Last Chance to Reason has been an ever-evolving musical force with one goal: to make challenging progressive music that moves people. After 2 releases and countless DIY tours, Last Chance to Reason ...
Five long time friends from Marfa, Tx. who have all been in bands before but never in a band of such magnitude. Lbs. has been a band for about a year, with driving guitar riffs and monster vocals, we feed off of one ano...
A new breed of dark rockers is subtly taking over, stealing the hearts of a dedicated legion of fans, with a blend of intense melodic metal and a penchant for the macabre. Already fan favorites in the scene, Pennsylvania...
Mutilation Rites is filthy black metal hailing from Brooklyn, conceived by Michael Dimmitt and Justin Ennis in January 2009. After various incarnations, they have amalgamated with George Paul and Iain Deaderick. Influenc...
Few bands today embrace their own individualism to ultimately craft something truly unique and genre defying regardless of its sales potential. Enter the Chicago-based NACHTMYSTIUM who embrace the true spirit of individu...
"Primitive Weapons, a N.Y. quintet featuring Long Island hardcore scene vets who like plowing Deadguy and AmRep into dark sludge and doom, follow a self-titled 2011 7" with a frantic, but spacious debut LP, The Shadow Ga...
"Primitive Weapons, a N.Y. quintet featuring Long Island hardcore scene vets who like plowing Deadguy and AmRep into dark sludge and doom, follow a self-titled 2011 7" with a frantic, but spacious debut LP, The Shadow Ga...
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RINGWORM, the reigning kings of destructive hardcore metal, have brought forth yet another testament to their sheer brutality: The Venomous Grand Design. Ever since their emergence from the Cleveland metal scene, RINGWOR...
”A Study in Coordinated Whiplash” wrote The New York Times October 2008, after one of SHINING’s pounding concerts in Manhattan. Norway's NRK Lydverket were equally impressed with SHINING after their performance in ...
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’90′s industrial kingpins, Skrew, have stripped off their exoskeleton to reveal an unholy bastion of extreme metal for an Antichrist nation. This angry metal machine is back with more psalms of destruction in a world...
It takes great vision for a band to refuse to rest on their previous successes and instead focus on what they need to become. That’s exactly what Lodi, California’s A Skylit Drive achieved with the sextet’s third f...
In lieu of cold statistics, nationwide bamboozlement and the usual mind numbing malaise, Sean Yseult (White Zombie), vocalist Von Hesseling, guitarist Donna She Wolf (Cycle Sluts From Hell), guitarist Dave Catching (Eag...
Josh Graham
(Battle Of Mice, Blood And Time, Neurosis): guitar, vocals, synthesizers, banjo, piano
Domenic Seita
(ex Tombs): bass, backing vocals, percussion
BJ Graves
(US Christmas, Generation of Vipers): drums
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With their fifth full-length album, In Waves, Trivium make a crucial statement.
It's a statement about writing their own rules about what it means to be a contemporary metal band. It's a statement that encompasses bou...
A quest for knowledge, quest to see / all these things inside of me / looking in, there’s something wrong / I must set out on my own
If there is any hope that Rock N Roll can change the world, as Valient Thorr belie...
Tearing through the speakers like a swamp monster summoned from some dark cosmic morass, Texas riff-masters Wo Fat un-apologetically blast out a southern fried, blues-infused version of Psychedelic Doom, conjuring up vis...
We are Woe, Is Me from Atlanta, GA! Some good ole’ boys from down South. We aim to connect with our fans, without our number[s] we would be nothing.......
Wretched is a melodic death metal band based out of Charlotte, North Carolina, blending the sounds of European and American Metal. Wretched entered the studio to record with Jamie King (Between the Buried and Me) to push...
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Formed in the early months of 2009 by four individuals in search of an opening to flee their discontent with the mundane routine of normal life and their past musical endeavors. Young and in the Way found that escape in ...
ZOROASTER’s heady mix of mammoth metal and psychotropic shoegaze has seen the trio hailed as "one of the U.S.'s most promising metal bands" and it has receiving shining praise for its explosive power, intriguing mystic...
