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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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I.See.Red is a metalcore band from Athens, Greece, active since 2016 and delivering aggressive, dynamic metal with crushing breakdowns and intense energy. The project channels the power of modern extreme metal.
Metalcore band from Pietarsaari on Finland's Ostrobothnian coast, active since 2017. Their sound delivers metalcore from the bilingual Finnish-Swedish coastal town.
Melodic death metal/metalcore band from Paris, France active since 2013. Their sound blends Scandinavian-style melodeath with modern metalcore from the French capital.
Progressive death metal/metalcore band from Paris, France formed in 2021. Their sound pushes death metal and metalcore into progressive territory from the French capital.
Icestorm is a band from Barcelona, Spain, active since 2012, evolving from traditional heavy metal into a melodic death metal/metalcore hybrid. The band's stylistic evolution reflects Barcelona's diverse heavy music landscape.
Metalcore band from Dundee, Scotland formed in 2023. Their anime-referencing name channels metalcore from the Scottish east coast.
Wisconsin thrash/death metallers from Silver Lake who have been tearing through the rural Midwest since 2016, fusing the neck-snapping momentum of thrash with the malevolent texture of death metal.
Iconvict is a metalcore/hardcore band from Hanover, Germany, formed in 2023, combining the breakdowns and aggression of metalcore with hardcore punk's confrontational energy. The band represents the newest generation of Hanover's heavy music underground.
Metalcore band from Kotka in southeastern Finland, active since 2010. Their exorcism-referencing name channels metalcore aggression from the Gulf of Finland.
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