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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 band from Helsinki, Finland formed in 2022. They channel hardcore-infused metalcore energy from the Finnish capital.
Groove metal and metalcore band from Athens, Greece active since 2009. They bring heavy, modern metal from the Greek capital.
Nowy Targ's metal underground has produced no shortage of heavy acts, and this metalcore unit is among them — wielding clean-to-harsh vocal dynamics over rhythmically punishing foundations. Uncompromising in their vision, they deliver exactly what their audience demands.
Part of Russia's sprawling, uncompromising metal landscape, this act channels metalcore with a focus on melodic hooks and crushing breakdowns in controlled chaos. Formed in 2009, based in Moscow, the results are heavier and more inventive than the genre tag might suggest.
Groove, metalcore, and thrash metal band from Worcester, England launched in 2025. They bring modern, heavy metal energy from the West Midlands.
Heavy, progressive metal and metalcore act from Berlin, Germany, blending technical ambition with aggressive energy since 2014. Their genre-spanning approach combines the cerebral depth of progressive metal with metalcore's visceral impact.
Out of Kenosha, Wisconsin since 2014, Edict of Nantes builds at the crossroads of metalcore structure and deathcore weight, taking their name from a historical decree and filtering it through a decade of underground heaviness.
Metalcore act from Navia in Asturias on Spain's northern coast, delivering aggressive, breakdown-heavy compositions since 2009. Their long-running commitment to metalcore reflects deep roots in the Asturian heavy music scene.
Melodic death metal and metalcore band from Perm in the Ural Mountains region of Russia, formed in 2022. Their sound blends melodic death metal with metalcore from one of Russia's major eastern industrial cities.
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