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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)
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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Death metal, grindcore, and goregrind act from Coventry in the West Midlands, active since 2018. Their provocatively grotesque name matches visceral compositions exploring the most extreme corners of underground metal.
An established metalcore voice from Lappeenranta, contributing to Finland's underground since 2018. Their compositions channel the spirit of their genre through conviction and craft.
Birmingham, Alabama's Haste formed in 1995 and occupied a space where post-hardcore, metalcore, and emo intersected. The band released three albums — Pursuit in the Face of Consequence (1999), When Reason Sleeps (2001), and The Mercury Lift (2003) — before disbanding in 2007. The Mercury Lift in particular drew comparisons to the atmospheric post-hardcore of Quicksand and Hum, and the band is remembered as a defining act of the early 2000s regional heavy music scene.
Melodic death metal/metalcore band from Krefeld, Germany, active since 2008. Their polished sound merges Gothenburg-influenced melodic death metal with the dynamic energy of metalcore.
Mount Laurel's Hate Breeder, formed in 2024, navigate the space between melodic death metal's harmonic sophistication and metalcore's structural punch. A fresh entry in New Jersey's growing extreme metal scene.
Bred in Bratislava's underground, this act delivers furious metalcore since 2010. Energetic performances and committed songwriting define their approach.
Hate in Hands is a metalcore/melodic death metal band from Moscow, Russia, active since 2014 and blending melodic harmonies with death metal aggression. The project channels the twin-guitar traditions of Scandinavian-influenced melodeath.
Thrash metal/metalcore band from Hanover, Germany, active since 2004, blending thrash and death metal with hardcore. Having performed at major festivals including Dynamo, Wacken, and With Full Force, their tracks received heavy rotation on Viva during their two-decade career.
Akron's Hate Theory have been working the fertile middle ground between death metal and metalcore since 2017, building a sound with the brutality of the former and the structural hooks of the latter. Ohio's industrial heritage informs their heavy, purposeful approach.
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