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Featured Album
Spicy Boys Split (2017)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
Dark Waters (2020)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Long Gone / Numb To What Is Real (2024)
06/06 @ Knitting Factory Concert House - Boise, Boise
Featured Death Metal Album
This Hollow Ache (2021)
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A short-lived Philadelphia death/doom project, Call of Pripyat channeled sorrow, bleakness, and apocalyptic dread into crushing compositions before splitting up in 2022.
Allentown, Pennsylvania's Call Off Dead traffic in doom and sludge metal, stacking slow, oppressive riffs into a dense wall of sound since 2019.
Lancaster, Pennsylvania outfit blending thrash, stoner metal, and punk with a lycanthropic/Satanic thematic bent, active from 2007 until their split-up.
Northumberland County, Pennsylvania slam/brutal death metal and goregrind band taking their name from the 1980 horror film and operating in the extreme underground.
Philadelphia duo splicing black metal harshness with the expansive melancholy of post-rock, channeling nihilistic themes through a sound caught between blast-beat severity and atmospheric drift.
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.
Pittsburgh's Castle Blood are a crossover thrash institution dating back to 1987, known for fast, punk-inflected riffing and a lo-fi, raw energy that ties them to the genre's original DIY spirit.
Philadelphia's Castle Freak lean into the noise and chaos of grindcore while keeping one foot in death metal's structural sensibility, delivering brief, violent bursts of grinding extremity.
Philadelphia thrash metal band rooted in the raw, direct aggression of classic East Coast and Bay Area thrash with punishing riffs.
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