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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 Paris, France, formed in 2025, delivering heavy grooves and breakdowns from the French capital. They bring modern aggression to the Parisian metal scene.
Metalcore band from Apeldoorn, Netherlands, formed in 2016, whose Greek-derived name means both medicine and poison. They deliver potent metalcore from the Gelderland region.
Stamford, Connecticut's Physics of Demise applies a systematic ferocity to metalcore — tight, mechanical riff construction underpinned by the kind of breakdown-driven catharsis the genre does best.
Albi's Pestiferum has been spreading black metal contagion from the medieval Occitan city since 2013. Their Tarn department setting — site of the infamous Albigensian Crusade — provides centuries of religious violence as thematic fuel.
Thrash metal and metalcore band from Lemgo, Germany, formed in 2020, blending old-school thrash aggression with modern metalcore breakdowns. They bring crossover energy to the North Rhine-Westphalian metal scene.
Albany's Planet Eater drag sludge and stoner weight through a metalcore framework, building slow-burning riffs into volatile, lurching explosions. Since 2016 they've carved a niche in the Northeast underground where heaviness is measured in tonnage.
Deathcore and metalcore band from Limoges, France, active since 2006, making them a veteran act in the French deathcore scene. Nearly two decades of heavy breakdowns and aggressive vocals mark their dedication.
Atmospheric metalcore from Longview.
Groove metal and metalcore band from Yekaterinburg, Russia, formed in 2022, whose mixed-language name evokes righteous deeds. They bring rhythmically driven aggression from the Ural capital.
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