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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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Teitan craft avant-garde black metal from the Rotterdam/Schiedam area, pushing the genre's boundaries through unconventional song structures and dissonant experimentation since 2021. Their willingness to dissolve black metal's traditional frameworks places them among the Dutch scene's more adventurous projects.
The Fathomless Deep is an avant-garde sludge/post-metal band from the Helsinki metropolitan area, formed in 2011. They push the boundaries of sludge and post-metal with avant-garde compositional approaches.
The Zoea from London craft avant-garde black and death metal named after the larval stage of crustaceans since 2021. Their marine-biological concept drives compositions of metamorphic, evolutionary extremity that challenge conventional form.
Thlimmos is an avant-garde black metal project from Greece, formed in 2020. Their Greek name, meaning 'sorrow' or 'affliction,' permeates their experimental approach to black metal.
Thornostrum is an avant-garde black/death metal band from Bonn, Germany, formed in 2022. They push the boundaries of extreme metal with experimental and avant-garde compositions.
Thy Catafalque is an acclaimed avant-garde metal project from Makó, Hungary, helmed by multi-instrumentalist Tamás Kátai since 1998. Their eclectic sound blends metal, Hungarian folk traditions, rock, and electronic elements into a singular vision, with 2024's XII featuring over twenty guest musicians across expansive, genre-defying compositions.
Tlön from Scotland craft avant-garde black metal named after Jorge Luis Borges's fictional planet from 'Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius' since 2024. Their literary reference drives compositions that construct alternative sonic realities, mirroring Borges's theme of imagined worlds overwriting the real.
Traumatic Voyage is an avant-garde/progressive death/black metal band from Munich, Germany, active since 1992. With over three decades of boundary-pushing extreme metal, they are among the most veteran avant-garde acts in the German scene.
Avant-garde black/death metal band from Plovdiv, Bulgaria—a city whose ancient Roman name, Trimontium, the band has adopted. Their 2021 demo, a four-track release, introduced their unconventional approach to extreme metal that blends black and death metal structures with more experimental and dissonant elements. Operating out of Bulgaria's second-largest city and former European Capital of Culture, they occupy a distinctive niche in the country's underground.
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