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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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Black metal, grindcore, and industrial metal act from Annecy, France active since 2003. They fuse industrial harshness with extreme metal brutality from the Alpine lakeside city.
Grindcore, death metal, and crust punk outfit from Oldenburg in northern Germany, delivering chaotic blasts of genre-blending extremity since 2020. Their darkly humorous name sets the tone for an approach that refuses to take itself too seriously while remaining sonically devastating.
Seattle's Ectopic Pregnancy, formed in 2024, weaponize brutal death metal and goregrind in the tradition of Pacific Northwest extremity — confrontational, visceral, and unapologetically ugly.
Out of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania — a town with its own ghosts — Ectoplasm have been grinding through the death/grind underground since 2019, their name fitting perfectly for a band rising from historically haunted soil.
Devotees of death metal and grindcore, this Russian outfit from Moscow has been refining their craft since 2012. Their sound hinges on weaponized brevity delivering maximum aggression in minimum time, delivered with total devotion.
Madison, Wisconsin's Effluvium formed in 2016 to deliver goregrind-inflected death metal with the relentless churn the genre demands. Short songs, maximum rot — a welcome addition to the Upper Midwest's extreme underground.
Verona-based brutal death metal, death metal, and grindcore act, active since 2017 delivering technically precise fretwork wrapped in visceral brutality. Rooted in the Mediterranean peninsula's diverse metal ecosystem, their recordings carry the stench of early 90s death metal worship.
Death metal and goregrind act from Ostrava, Czech Republic, blending guttural extremity with grinding chaos since 2020. Their approach draws from both genres' most visceral tendencies from Moravia's industrial heartland.
Grindcore and death metal act from Bremen, Germany, delivering chaotic, self-centered blasts of extreme noise since 2010. Their portmanteau name fuses egotism with thrash, reflecting a tongue-in-cheek approach to grinding extremity.
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