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Featured Album
Divine (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/07 @ Gramercy Theatre, New York
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French deathcore band from Reims in Champagne, formed in 2011. They deliver crushing deathcore from the city of coronations and champagne.
Five-piece blackened deathcore outfit from Vienna, Austria, inspired by dark Alpine winter nights. Their 2024 debut "Mene Tekel" channels philosophical themes of existence and mortality through heavy, fast riffs and rough vocals with beatdown hardcore influences.
Deathcore band from the Beerse/Lille area of Belgium, active since 2012. They trade in the genre's signature combination of death metal technicality and hardcore breakdowns.
Crushing Brutal Deathcore from Orange, California / West Jordan, Utah / Houston.
Spanish deathcore band from Benidorm on the Costa Blanca, formed in 2010. They deliver crushing deathcore from the Mediterranean tourist resort.
Death metal and deathcore band from Lugano, Switzerland, formed in 2020. They bring crushing extreme metal from the Italian-speaking Ticino region.
German atmospheric black/death metal and deathcore band from Nuremberg, formed in 2021. They fuse atmospheric extremity with deathcore's crushing breakdowns for a layered, intense sound.
Dutch sludge/post-metal outfit active since 2023, building dynamic compositions that oscillate between abrasive sludge riffing and atmospheric expanses. Their music trades in tension and release, alternating quiet passages with crushing walls of distortion.
Seregno (Monza)-based melodic death metal/metalcore act active since 2013, blending Gothenburg-inspired guitar harmonies with metalcore's dynamic structures and breakdown-driven intensity. Their sound bridges the melodic death metal tradition with modern extreme metal's visceral energy.
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