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Featured Album
"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Stolen Soul blend metalcore, melodic death, and groove metal from the Basque town of Mungia, creating a versatile aggressive sound. Formed in 2024, they bring soul-theft intensity to the Basque heavy music scene.
Rancho Cucamonga, California band formed in 2017 that merges death metal, thrash, and metalcore influences into an aggressive style rooted in the Inland Empire's active extreme metal underground.
Stonem play metalcore from Landsberg am Lech in Upper Bavaria, combining aggressive breakdowns with melodic passages from the banks of the Lech. Active since 2015, they bring modern heaviness to the Bavarian lake district.
Storm the Sun is a Dallas, Texas band formed in 2013 that operates at the intersection of progressive metal and metalcore, combining technical ambition with heavy, rhythmically aggressive passages.
Stormscaper is a post-metal and metalcore band from Indianapolis, Indiana, formed in 2020, weaving the textural density of post-metal with metalcore's aggressive dynamics and emotional intensity.
Straight Line Stitch is a Knoxville, Tennessee band formed around 2008 that evolved from nu-metal roots into metalcore, distinguished by the powerful vocals of frontwoman Alexis Brown and a devoted following in the underground metal scene.
New York metalcore band formed in 2024, drawing on the genre's synthesis of hardcore aggression and metal riffing to produce confrontational, high-energy material.
Groove metal and metalcore band from Kennewick, Washington, formed in 2022, blending down-tuned rhythmic aggression with the melodic sensibilities of modern metalcore. Despite sharing a name with the Massachusetts raw black metal act, this band occupies decidedly heavier, groove-driven territory.
Melodic death metal and metalcore band from Hickory, North Carolina, formed in 2011, fusing Scandinavian melodeath guitar work with the rhythmic and vocal intensity of metalcore. Their sound has evolved toward a heavier, more aggressive deathcore-influenced direction over their career.
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