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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)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Death metal, melodic death metal, and metalcore band from Turenki/Hameenlinna, Finland, active since 2016. They deliver diverse extreme metal from the Tavastia region of southern Finland.
Melodic death metal and metalcore act from Madrid, Spain, blending harmonic richness with aggressive energy since 2009. Their self-referencing name adds introspective depth to their fusion of melodic extremity and hardcore.
Thrash/power metal and metalcore band from Russia formed in 2022, blending thrash and power metal's energy with metalcore's breakdown-heavy aggression into an eclectic hybrid.
Eldermoon is a melodic death metal and metalcore band from Curitiba, Brazil, blending heavy metal, metalcore, and melodic death metal influences. The band has released the EPs We Are Lost No More and Vita Mortem, followed by their full-length debut Egregora (2024) through Sliptrick Records, a concept album narrated by a moon-like omniscient entity.
Metalcore and post-metal band from Villeveyrac in southern France, active since 2015. They blend atmospheric post-metal textures with metalcore intensity from the Languedoc region.
Eleva is a metalcore band from Arica, in northern Chile, who released their debut album Tempvs in August 2015. The five-piece — featuring Mario Espinoza on vocals, Gonzalo Fajardo and Francisco Justiniano on guitars, Duilio Cuellar on bass, and Pablo Miranda on drums — built their sound around rhythmic variation and contrasting textures, blending heavy riffing with melodic elements.
When Elision of Animus emerged in 2013 from Ílhavo, they brought with them a sound rooted in metalcore, progressive metal, and thrash metal — all genre-bending ambition that refuses easy categorization. Their catalog reveals a band unafraid to explore the darker corners of heavy music.
Proof that the underground never sleeps, this death metal, melodic death metal, and metalcore act from Braga traffics in labyrinthine song structures built on chromatic riff mazes. Since 2012, they've built a catalog that reflects Portugal's intimate but fiercely devoted metal community.
Denver's Elk Hunter arrived in 2025 dragging metalcore's angular energy through sludge's mire, the band's mile-high origin reflected in a suffocating, high-altitude heaviness.
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