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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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Groove metal and metalcore band from London, active since 2010 and fusing the rhythmic crunch of groove metal with metalcore's dynamic song structures and breakdowns. Their sound bridges the gap between these two aggressive yet accessible heavy music styles.
Exploring the depths of death metal, melodic death metal, and metalcore, this Italian outfit from Como has been refining their craft since 2011. Their sound hinges on Florida-school brutality with modern precision, delivered with unflinching purpose.
Berlin metalcore act with thrash metal elements, formed in 2020 and blending the breakdown-driven dynamics of metalcore with thrash's relentless velocity. Their sound represents the capital's modern heavy music scene.
Metalcore band from Vitoria-Gasteiz, capital of the Basque Country, formed in 2016 and delivering breakdown-driven aggression. Their sound represents the heavier end of the Basque modern metal scene.
Swedish melodic death metal and metalcore band formed in 2022, bridging the Gothenburg-style melodic death metal tradition with modern metalcore breakdowns. Their approach combines dual-guitar harmonies with the heaviness and rhythmic attack of contemporary metalcore.
Chico, California's Kattattak blur the line between melodic death metal and metalcore, bringing driving rhythms and melodic hooks together with enough extremity to satisfy fans of both worlds since 2016.
Death metal/metalcore band from Paris, active since 2013 and blending death metal's brutality with metalcore's dynamics. Their confrontational, conflict-driven name matches the combative energy of their genre-crossing sound.
Santa Cruz, California's Kavalkade marry melodic death metal's lead-driven drama to metalcore's rhythmic punch, carving out a sound with both melodic ambition and heavy impact since their 2022 formation.
Boston's Kazmi draw from an unusually wide arsenal — melodic death, thrash, metalcore — blending these into a hybrid sound that captures the ambition of the city's dense and competitive extreme metal scene since 2016.
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