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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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Suunya blends industrial elements with technical groove metal and metalcore from Montpellier, active since 2009. Their Buddhist-derived name, referencing the concept of emptiness, contrasts with the dense, mechanistic intensity of their sonic output.
SVNTN is a metalcore band from Round Lake Beach, Illinois, formed in 2022, delivering the genre's characteristic blend of aggressive riffing, breakdowns, and melodic vocal dynamics from the Chicago suburbs.
Swamp Lion is a metalcore band from St. Louis, Missouri, formed in 2020, working within the aggressive rhythms and melodic intensity central to contemporary American metalcore.
Switchback is a sludge and stoner metal band from Hyrum, Utah, active since 2013, delivering slow, heavy riffs shaped by the isolation of Cache Valley's rural landscape.
New York act with roots going back to the mid-1990s hardcore scene, Sworn Enemy evolved through hardcore and metalcore into a crossover thrash outfit known for their pit-ready aggression and unrelenting live energy.
Metalcore band from Union City, New Jersey, formed in 2014, delivering the genre's hallmark combination of punishing breakdowns and melodic hooks with a Northeast underground edge.
Metalcore band from Columbus, Ohio, formed in 2022, operating within the modern metalcore landscape with a sound that balances melody and aggression.
Synthetic Mirage deliver melodic death metal and metalcore from the Castilian city of Burgos, combining Scandinavian melodeath with modern heaviness. Formed in 2024, they bring illusory intensity to the northern Castilian scene.
Syranic blend metalcore with melodic death metal from Aachen, combining modern breakdowns with Scandinavian melodeath's harmonic sophistication. Active since 2010, they bring hybrid intensity to the Euregio tri-border region.
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