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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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Death/groove metal/metalcore band from Aachen, active since 2009 and blending multiple heavy styles into a versatile sonic assault. Their long tenure on Germany's western border has produced a battle-tested live act.
Death/thrash metal and metalcore hybrid from Hamburg and Kiel, active since 2009 and blending old-school aggression with modern dynamics. Their dual-city roots reflect the interconnected northern German metal underground.
Groove metal/metalcore band from Don Benito in Extremadura, formed in 2023 and bringing heavy, modern metal to one of Spain's less-represented metal regions. Their sound pairs groove metal's crushing rhythms with metalcore's dynamic breakdowns.
Groove metal/metalcore band from Suhescun in the French Basque Country, formed in 2023 and delivering heavy, rhythmically punishing compositions. Their Basque-region origins add a distinctive cultural identity to their modern metal.
Death metal and metalcore band from Thessaloniki, active since 2013 and bridging the brutality of death metal with metalcore's dynamic structures. Their sound merges guttural extremity with the compositional range of modern heavy music.
Progressive death metal and metalcore band from the Somerset/Wiltshire border, active since 2015 with releases including the EP Pariah and Divine Self Invention. Their sound bridges the technical complexity of progressive death metal with metalcore's dynamic structures.
New Orleans' Kingdom of Sorrow merge the swampy heaviness of sludge metal with metalcore's structural intensity, and the combination carries the weight of a city that has always made music sound like survival. Active since 2008 and deeply rooted in the Crescent City's heavy scene.
San Francisco Bay Area's Kingdom Scorned play melodic metalcore with a hook-forward sensibility, drawing on the region's long history of technically proficient heavy music. Formed in 2012, their sound prioritizes emotional impact as much as aggression.
Melodic metalcore band from Oulu, formed in 2022 and blending metalcore's breakdown dynamics with melodic hooks. Their Finnish name meaning "venomous" or "sharp" captures the biting edge of their northern Finnish metalcore.
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