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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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Death metal and deathcore band from Duisburg, Germany, active since 2007. They combine the aggression of death metal with metalcore's breakdowns and melodic elements from the industrial Ruhr region.
Progressive death metal and deathcore band from Wiesbaden, Germany, formed in 2013. They blend technical complexity and progressive structures with the crushing aggression of modern extreme metal.
Bucharest deathcore and grindcore pioneers formed in 2007 by Calin Raduta and Costin Chioreanu, credited with defining Romania's grindcore scene through releases like 'First EP for a Surgery' and debut album 'I'll Kill If I Live.' Their name translates to 'Skull-Head' in Romanian, matching a sound steeped in horror, gore, and social commentary.
Brutal death-deathcore act from the Odessa region, formed in 2024. Carabid — named after predatory ground beetles — delivers crushing extremity from southern Ukraine.
Wichita, Kansas act formed in 2014 fusing melodic death metal with groove metal and deathcore, delivering aggressive riffing tempered by melodic hooks.
Death metal and deathcore band from Denmark, formed in 2023. They deliver crushing extremity through a blend of death metal brutality and deathcore breakdowns.
Chicago-based act fusing melodic death metal's harmonic sensibility with the brutality of deathcore breakdowns, delivering technically precise riffwork alongside moments of punishing heaviness.
Norman, Oklahoma death metal and deathcore band delivering a punishing combination of old-school death metal brutality and modern breakdowns, honed through over a decade in the Oklahoma underground.
Slamming brutal death metal stalwarts from Zurich, Switzerland, active since 2006 with a deep catalog spanning releases from Carnal Pleasures through 2018's When Push Comes To Shove. Their sound draws from brutal death metal, grindcore, and slamming beatdown, recorded at Germany's Kohlekeller Studio.
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