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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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Heavy/thrash metal and metalcore band from Hamburg, Germany, formed in 2022. Their versatile sound bridges the gap between traditional heavy metal power, thrash velocity, and metalcore breakdowns from Germany's northern metropolis.
Black metal project from Mikkeli in eastern Finland, active since 2016. Their dark compositions channel the cold isolation of Finland's lakeland interior into fierce, atmospheric black metal.
Hands of Attrition is a metalcore band from Birmingham, United Kingdom, active since 2019 and delivering aggressive, dynamic metal with crushing breakdowns and intense energy. The project channels the power of modern extreme metal.
Formed in London, England in 2007, Hang the Bastard operated at the intersection of sludge metal, doom, and metalcore, releasing Hellfire Reign (2010) and Sex in the Seventh Circle (2014) on Century Media Records. Their churning, downtuned riffs and hardcore-inflected aggression placed them alongside the British heavy underground scene of the late 2000s. The band disbanded in 2016 following a farewell performance at the Damnation Festival but subsequently reunited.
Winona, Minnesota's Harbinger blend groove and thrash metal into a mid-sized town sound with outsized bite, active since 2015 in a state with a fierce and underappreciated metal pedigree.
From Ohrid in North Macedonia, this thrash metal/metalcore act brings relentless intensity to the regional scene since 2007. High-velocity riffs and pounding rhythms form the backbone of their sound.
Spawned in Trentino-South Tyrol's underground, this metalcore/hardcore outfit channels italian ferocity since 2025. Their sound delivers the intensity their genre demands with focused execution.
Milwaukee's Harlots have spent two decades sharpening the intersection of metalcore and technical death metal into something genuinely punishing. Formed in 2004, they bring the rhythmic punch of the former and the surgical precision of the latter in equal measure.
Chicago's Harm's Way formed in 2006 as a powerviolence side project before evolving into a full-time act rooted in industrial-tinged metalcore. Signing to Metal Blade Records, the band released Posthuman (2018) and Common Suffering (2023), both of which demonstrated a progressive widening of their sonic palette beyond hardcore's usual constraints. Their trajectory from Crossed Out-influenced grind to groove-heavy metalcore has earned them a dedicated following across both punk and metal circles.
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