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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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Metalcore act from Utrecht, formed in 2023. Curselifter brings hardcore-infused intensity to the Dutch metal scene.
Groove metal and metalcore band from Espoo, Finland, active since 2012. They blend heavy grooves with metalcore dynamics from the Helsinki metropolitan area.
Pittsburgh grindcore and metalcore band fusing brief, violent grind blasts with the heavy breakdowns of metalcore. Cutting Ties channels the Pennsylvania city's underground intensity into short, punishing bursts.
Reno death metal, deathcore, and metalcore band fusing modern extreme metal's heaviest elements into a punishing hybrid. Cyanate layers crushing breakdowns and guttural death metal aggression over a metalcore song framework.
Melodic death-metalcore act from Khabarovsk in the Russian Far East, formed in 2018. Cyberdelya blends melodic hooks with modern extreme metal from the Amur River city.
San Francisco progressive metalcore band known for intricate song structures, shifting rhythms, and a technically ambitious approach to heavy music. Cyborg Octopus weaves progressive metal's complexity into emotionally dynamic metalcore compositions.
Progressive metalcore band from Brighton, England, formed in 2015. They blend progressive complexity with metalcore dynamics from the English south coast.
Metalcore and thrash band from Chichester, England, active since 2004. With two decades of activity, they blend metalcore with thrash from the West Sussex cathedral city.
Melodic death-metalcore act from Belgrade, active since 2016. CyReign blends melodic hooks with modern extreme metal from the Serbian capital.
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