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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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Orlando thrash metal project from the Florida underground.
Gothic, industrial, and symphonic metal band from Paris, France formed in 2024. They fuse dark electronic textures with orchestral metal grandeur from the French capital.
When Embitter emerged in 2018 from Warsaw, they brought with them a sound rooted in death metal and metalcore — all punishing grooves interlocked with frenzied tremolo passages. Primal ferocity drives every note of their catalog.
Brooklyn's Embrace Agony weave melodic death metal's expressive sweep through metalcore's structure, landing somewhere between Scandinavian melody and New York City intensity. Since 2012, they've offered a more emotionally dynamic take on extreme music within the city's competitive scene.
Montgomery, Illinois' Embrace the Day blend groove metal's rhythmic momentum with metalcore's structural intensity, carving out a sound built for large stages and pit-heavy crowds. Formed in 2013, they bring a hard-hitting directness to the Midwest's heavy music landscape.
Death metal and metalcore band from Lille, France active since 2011. They bring intense, modern extreme metal from France's northern metropolis.
Stubbornly devoted to the riff, this metalcore act from Saint Petersburg traffics in melodic hooks and crushing breakdowns in controlled chaos. Since 2009, they've built a catalog that reflects Russia's sprawling, uncompromising metal landscape.
Long Beach's Empathy carve progressive thrash metal with Southern California's technical precision and just enough melodic sophistication to separate them from pure aggression acts — cerebral without losing the crunch.
Metalcore and melodic death metal act from Bilbao in the Basque Country, Spain, blending breakdowns with harmonic intensity since 2019. Their name evokes spreading decay, driving a sound that merges metalcore's rhythmic punch with melodic death metal's richness.
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