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Proof (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
Death Atlas (2019)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Baltimore groove metal and metalcore project whose 2017 demo captures raw, unpolished aggression from Charm City's heavy underground. The Egyptian mythology motif paired with 'unbound' suggests a band breaking free from genre constraints.
Phoenix, Arizona metalcore act whose 2017 EP Made For Death delivers aggressive, breakdown-heavy extremity from the Valley of the Sun. Desert heat fueling punishing heaviness.
Aphellium creates melodic groove metal and metalcore from Warsaw since 2018. Their astronomical name — referencing the point farthest from the sun — drives compositions that explore the distance between melody and aggression.
Aphyxion is a melodic death metal and metalcore band from Ribe, Denmark, formed in 2016, whose albums Aftermath, Void, and the 2023 release Ad Astra have established them as a force in the Danish underground metal scene. The band plays metal for the love of playing metal, collaborating with acts like Siamese and Chaosbay while working with producer Jonas Haagensen and mixer Jacob Hansen.
Apocaliptic Shadow delivers melodic death metal and metalcore from Zawoja in the Beskids mountains since 2017. From this mountain village — Poland's largest commune by area — they channel alpine fury through melodic extremity.
Fords metalcore project from the New Jersey underground.
Louisville metalcore project from the Kentucky underground.
Arayana combines metalcore with symphonic metal from Versailles since 2013, creating an ambitious fusion of crushing breakdowns and orchestral grandeur. Their palace-city origins add an unlikely regal backdrop to their genre-crossing compositions.
Arcadian Alone merges melodic death metal with metalcore from Hanover since 2021. Their pastoral-isolation name drives compositions that balance the melodic traditions of Gothenburg-style death metal with the dynamic aggression of modern metalcore.
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