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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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Progressive death metal outfit from Astrakhan, formed in 2014. Their material navigates shifting tempos, unconventional song structures, and intricate instrumental interplay while maintaining the genre's essential aggression.
Czech experimental grindcore and death metal band from Prague, active since 1996, making them one of the longer-running acts in the Czech extreme music underground. Their nearly three decades of output blends grindcore chaos with death metal heaviness and experimental unpredictability.
German grindcore band formed in 2017. They deliver terse, explosive grindcore with an intellectual edge.
Makiivka-based brutal death metal outfit active since 2015, delivering relentless blastbeat-driven punishment and guttural vocal extremity. Their compositions trade in the genre's heaviest currency: slamming breakdowns, inhuman vocals, and wall-to-wall brutality.
German death/thrash metal and grindcore band from Castrop-Rauxel in the Ruhr Valley, formed in 2014. They channel a feral blend of death-thrash and grindcore extremity.
Mealhada-based death metal/grindcore outfit active since 2020, blasting through short, ferocious compositions that marry death metal's low-end churn with grindcore's frenetic speed. Their music operates at maximum intensity with minimal patience for subtlety.
Nottingham-based grindcore/powerviolence outfit active since 2015, dealing in short, violent compositions that careen between blasting speed and crushing slow sections. Their confrontational approach strips heavy music to its most aggressive core.
Crossover thrash outfit from Skopje, formed in 2000. Their sound channels the spirit of 1980s crossover, fusing hardcore punk's immediacy with thrash metal's technical edge.
Death metal and grindcore band from Basel, Switzerland, formed in 2014. Their irreverent pop-culture name belies a serious commitment to extreme metal.
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