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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)
05/07 @ Gramercy Theatre, New York
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Zaandam metalcore/groove/death metal act formed in 2015, fusing aggressive breakdowns with crushing rhythms and extreme vocal delivery. Their multi-genre approach draws power from three distinct heavy music traditions.
Naja is a metalcore/thrash metal band from Trieste, Italy, formed in 2022. Named after the cobra genus, they strike with venomous aggression from this Adriatic border city.
Los Angeles-based Namra blends the melodic sensibility of Gothenburg death metal with metalcore's rhythmic punch, producing a hybrid sound shaped by the city's genre-fluid heavy scene. The band has been pushing that fusion since 2019.
Nancial is a melodic death metal and metalcore band from Moscow, Russia, active since 2016. They blend Scandinavian-influenced melodeath with modern metalcore from the Russian capital.
Nashwuah is a death metal/metalcore band from Milan, Italy, formed in 2022. They bring modern extreme metal intensity from Italy's largest metropolis.
Belgian beatdown hardcore outfit Nasty have been unleashing short bursts of vitriolic fury since forming in Kelmis in 2004, earning a reputation as one of Europe's most ferocious live acts. Their brand of metallic hardcore is built on bone-crushing breakdowns, pissed-off vocals, and an unrelenting aggression that has taken them across Europe, Asia, and South America. Signing to Century Media for 'Menace' marked a new chapter for a band that had already spent over a decade terrorizing stages worldwide.
Neaera is a melodic death metal and metalcore band from Munster, signed to Metal Blade Records, hailed as kings of the German melodic death metal scene. Their eight-album discography from 'The Rising Tide of Oblivion' through 2024's 'All Is Dust' showcases towering vocal performances and riffs described as hitting like a natural force.
Near Death Experiment is a death/thrash metal and metalcore band from Dagenham in East London, active since 2007. Their sound bridges death metal aggression with thrash velocity and metalcore breakdowns.
Necromid is a metalcore/thrash metal band from Imperia on the Ligurian Riviera, Italy, active since 2021. They bring aggressive modern metal from this sunny Mediterranean coastal city.
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