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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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Boise death metal and hardcore crossover act bringing Pacific Northwest aggression to a genre-blurring extreme. Their sound is physically confrontational and direct, built for live punishment.
Melodic death-metalcore act from Azov near Rostov-on-Don, active since 2014. CryAgain delivers hook-driven extreme metal from the Don River region.
Progressive metalcore band from Stade near Hamburg, Germany, emerging in 2025. They blend progressive complexity with metalcore dynamics.
Groove metal and metalcore act from Milan, with roots stretching back to 1998. Cubre has spent over a quarter century delivering heavy, rhythmically-driven metal from Lombardy's capital.
Nashville's Cumshot Wound are a grindy noise-worship unit who pack visceral, relentless riffs and raw, socio-political lyrical content into short, grinding blasts that blur the lines between death metal, grindcore, and metalcore. Formed in 2024 and signed to Scum City Entertainment, they quickly became one of Tennessee's most confrontational new acts.
Melodic death-metalcore act from Maribor, formed in 2018. Curse of Instinct blends melodic hooks with hardcore intensity from northeastern Slovenia.
Pittsburgh metalcore act channeling the aggressive energy of hardcore and metal into heavy, riff-driven compositions. Cursed Form draws from the Steel City's DIY scene tradition with a sound built on intensity and urgency.
Sanford, North Carolina band combining metalcore and thrash metal into an aggressive hybrid sound. Cursed from Birth NC blends hardcore-rooted song structure with the riff-shredding velocity of thrash.
Death metal, metalcore, and thrash band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2015. They deliver a genre-crossing attack blending death metal aggression with metalcore dynamics and thrash speed.
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