Formed in 2015, SUNLESS draws influence from pioneers of extreme and dissonant metal such as Gorguts, Ulcerate, and Meshuggah, reinterpreting the sounds through an abstract lens that is all their own. Comprised of bassist Mitch Schooler (Nerves, Modulus), drummer Taylor Hamel (Aziza), and guitarist/vocalist Lucas Scott (Obsolete, Australis, Pestifere), the band features a prominent rhythm section, a scattered assortment of time signatures, interwoven and complex arrangements, and bellowing death growls, akin to the output of Artificial Brain, Baring Teeth, and Pyrrhon. SUNLESS has toured and performed across the United States and Canada in support of their debut full-length album Urraca with bands such as Gigan, Suffering Hour, and Plebeian Grandstand. Tracked by Adam Tucker at Signaturetone Recording (The Crinn, Ambassador Gun, Maeth) in their hometown of Minneapolis, Minnesota and mixed/mastered by Colin Marston at Menegroth, The Thousand Caves in Queens, New York, Urraca delivers a relentlessly engaging onslaught of complex and dissonant death metal with nine tracks encompassing a dense forty-four minutes. The album is presented appropriately in a psychedelic and abstract visual manner with artwork by former band member Andrew Notsch (Youwretch) aka Hollow Dusk and logo by Stephen Wilson aka Unknown Relic.

Aeviterne formed in 2015 as a vehicle for guitarist and vocalist Garett Bussanick to continue exploring some of the musical ideas his previous band Flourishing pursued, particularly the fusion of death metal with rhythms and textures inspired by harsh post-punk and industrial music. Bussanick, Flourishing bassist Eric Rizk, and drummer Ian Jacyszyn (Miasmatic Necrosis) unveiled the Sireless EP in 2018. The years since that brief but powerful introductory statement were spent not in dormancy, but in painstaking composition and relentless experimentation in pursuit of the densely textured, multifaceted sound of The Ailing Facade, and also saw Aeviterne’s lineup expand to include guitarist Samuel Smith (Artificial Brain, Luminous Vault).

Bourn Ultra is a Los Angeles death/black metal band who worship at the altar of sonic titans. Their name invokes the Great Cosmic Journey, hinting at how they call upon the cosmic, insidious, and blackened atmospheres of Lovecraftian lore. Having morphed into a three piece after beginning as a solo project, the band has evolved into a potent live force. Their work has been praised for fusing the influence of classic black metal acts like Bathory and Immortal by means of themes of cosmic horror while evoking blasphemous crawling things. In 2018 band had released their debut full length, Aforetime Masters, the first war cry from a band who sought to light a fire within the Southern Californian death/black metal scene. It was a record hell bent on disregarding the universe as understood by Earthen souls and emphasizing their goal of con- juring thee supreme cosmic entity and powers forbidden. It was a fitting first triumph for these lifelong adherents to the underground. Now in 2021, the band has release a thrilling new EP, Skull Throne Inheritor. The new ep contains five new titles that take the listener through countless eons of cosmic awakening through nightmares of live mummification, blasphemous resurrection and destructive Towers of Fire all while they harken the Crouched One to Rise from it’s eternal sleep. They seek to build on past releases and journey towards twisted new gloomed futures. It all feeds to a goal of taking on the world one spell of horror at a time. This is true death/black metal stripped back to it’s most wonderfully twisted dark form. Bourn Ultra now seek a record label to help the band move forward