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Featured Album
"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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French progressive/avant-garde thrash metal band from Toulouse, pushing thrash metal's boundaries since 2009. Their approach weaves experimental structures and unconventional ideas through a foundation of thrash aggression.
Italian avant-garde black metal project from Modena, pushing black metal into experimental territory since 2020. Their provocative name signals the transgressive, boundary-defying character of their approach.
Spanish avant-garde black metal project from Seville, pushing black metal's boundaries through experimental, unconventional approaches since 2020. Their sound challenges genre conventions with adventurous compositions rooted in Andalusian creativity.
Russian avant-garde black metal band from Stavropol, pushing black metal's boundaries since 2010. Their nearly two decades of experimental commitment mark them as pioneers of Russian avant-garde extreme metal.
French avant-garde/psychedelic black metal project from Toulouse, formed in 2024 and pushing black metal into experimental, mind-expanding territory. Their approach blends psychedelic textures with avant-garde structures and black metal ferocity.
Lice is a Swedish avant-garde black metal project assembled by Niklas Kvarforth of Shining and guitarist J of Teitanblood, alongside additional contributor Kirill Krowli. The band released their debut full-length Woe Betide You through Season of Mist in 2019, channeling the confrontational experimentalism associated with both parent bands into a form of black metal that resists easy categorization. The project represents a deliberate convergence of two distinct European extreme metal visions.
Hungarian avant-garde/symphonic metal band from Budapest, pushing metal's boundaries since 2016. Their conceptual name signals the deceptive, boundary-defying character of their experimental approach.
Romanian avant-garde doom metal band from Sibiu, pushing doom metal's boundaries since 2015. Their musically-referencing name signals the experimental, theory-driven character of their avant-garde approach.
French avant-garde metal band from Lyon, pushing metal's boundaries through experimental compositions since 2013. Named after the Celtic sun god, their approach channels ancient mythology through unconventional, boundary-defying metal.
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