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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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Progressive and avant-garde death metal band from Finspang, Sweden, active since 1996, known as one of the most experimental acts in Swedish death metal history. Their boundary-pushing compositions blend death metal with surreal, avant-garde elements.
Avant-garde metal with folk elements from Russia, formed in 2021, whose Finnish name means 'healing of graves.' They bring unconventional, folk-infused experimental metal to the Russian underground.
Avant-garde and black metal band from Seixal, Portugal, formed in 2014, whose Portuguese name means 'pestilence.' They push the boundaries of black metal with avant-garde experimentation from the Lisbon metropolitan area.
Avant-garde black and death metal project from Velky Osek, Czech Republic, established in 2008, blending experimental noise elements with extreme metal. Their two releases, Taste the Fetus and Make a Wish and Don't Let Them Breathe, showcase a nihilistic and boundary-pushing approach.
One-man atmospheric avant-garde black metal project from Burgas, Bulgaria, launched in 2015 with the debut Cult of Three. Remarkably prolific with over ten albums released at roughly one per year, the project blends experimental and post-black metal with atmospheric textures.
Avant-garde black metal band from Russia, formed in 2019, whose name references the Greek term for the moon. They push the boundaries of black metal through experimental, lunar-tinged compositions.
Avant-garde metal band from Nieuwegein and Utrecht, Netherlands, formed in 2021, mining unconventional sonic territory through experimental metal. They bring adventurous compositions to the Dutch metal underground.
Avant-garde and black metal band from Salerno, Italy, formed in 2017, whose name references the entry song of the chorus in ancient Greek drama. They bring theatrical, experimental black metal to the Campanian coast.
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