Due to their lust for rancid and rotten death metal, three maniacs started the band Cryptic Brood in the year 2013. After several physical regurgitations in form of a demo, an EP and multiple splits, their first full-length "Brain Eater" was released in 2017 and gained positive reputation. Packed with this extraction of doomed out death metal, the trio spread its plague in the repulsive realm of the death metal underground by intense morbid live rituals all over the globe.
In November 2019, the brood came back from a short slumber in its cave to unveil their new album entitled "Outcome Of Obnoxious Science". Cryptic Brood’s second full-length is a sonic lobotomy that vaporizes your brain in a vortex of filth. Rotten metal of death to shatter your skull with ghastly grindcore and distasteful doom metal, (de-)composed in their dungeon in Wolfsburg/Germany.

Formed in 2010, Virginia trio Night Hag approaches their 15th year of rotting existence, releasing a hand full of demos, eps, live albums, and splits along the way until the 2022 full length Phantasmal Scourge. The bands particularly foul brand of death metal and rancid doom has taken shape and further solidified through the years of consistent live shows, fests, and touring. Gluey mid paced pummelling segues into faster paced bone crushing heaviness which falls into the droning, drooling, caveman doom you'd expect from Coffins or Cianide and the like. Night Hag certainly has their own flavour though, which is evident in the nightmare drenched, no frills / all stench style.

The name Head of the Baptist may conjure images of torch-bearing, satanic Black Metal worshippers atop snow-covered peaks. However, this band is an enigmatic fusion of heavy genres. 
Weaving together crushing Black and Death metal influences, while embracing the fistful rage of D-Beat/Crust and the chaos of Grindcore.
Next to their previous demo release in 2018, their EP "The Pyre Of Equivalence" was released digitally in 2023 and on CD and vinyl in 2024 by labels Loner Cult Records (BE), Lycanthropic Chants (DE) and Cursed Monk Records (IL)