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Featured Album
"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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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Grimstad-based avant-garde black metal project active since 1997, pushing the genre's boundaries through unconventional structures, dissonant harmonies, and unexpected instrumental choices. Their restless creativity defies easy categorization within the broader black metal spectrum.
Finnish avant-garde/sludge/post-metal band from Turku, formed in 2020. They push metal boundaries through an experimental fusion of sludge, post-metal, and avant-garde elements.
Italian symphonic metal act active since 2015, building their sound on lush orchestral arrangements, soaring vocals, and cinematic compositions. Their music draws from the European symphonic metal tradition of epic, larger-than-life heavy music.
French atmospheric and avant-garde black metal band from Mondeville, active since 1995. With three decades of boundary-pushing output spanning atmospheric black metal, industrial metal, and dark ambient, they are one of the most influential and innovative extreme metal acts in France and beyond.
German avant-garde black metal band from Klingenthal in Saxony, formed in 2021. They push black metal into unconventional, experimental territory from the Erzgebirge mountains.
British avant-garde black metal project active since 2024, pushing the genre's boundaries through unconventional structures, dissonant harmonies, and unexpected instrumental choices. Their restless creativity defies easy categorization within the broader black metal spectrum.
Avant-garde metal project from Irkutsk in eastern Siberia, formed in 2020. Cageyseetkaah explores unconventional approaches to heavy music from the shores of Lake Baikal.
Avant-garde black metal band from Tampere, Finland, formed in 2017. They push black metal into unconventional territory through experimental and avant-garde approaches.
Avant-garde black metal project from Russia, formed in 2020. Carnation Maze pushes black metal into experimental, unconventional territory.
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