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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)
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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Thrash, death metal, and hardcore band from Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, formed in 2012, combining multiple aggressive styles into a relentless assault. They bring crossover chaos to the Volga River city.
Furious Crossover / Thrash Metal from Austin/Houston/Pasadena.
Passional arrived from Belém's underground in 2023 with a short, prolific burst of doom-soaked death and thrash metal, releasing multiple records in rapid succession including I Cry... Tears of Blood and Sweet Revenge... To Kill You After My Death. Their material orbits crimes of passion, emotional devastation, and the violence that can emerge from betrayal, with extended compositions that sit at the bleaker, slower end of the death-doom spectrum.
Groove and thrash metal band from London, England, formed in 2021, delivering hard-hitting groove-thrash from the British capital. They bring rhythmic aggression and headbanging energy to the London metal scene.
Coburg's Phalluskult has been grinding at the intersection of death metal and grindcore since 2007, their provocative name setting the tone for their confrontational approach. Nearly two decades of output from this Upper Franconian outpost have cemented their cult status.
Progressive and thrash metal band from Trollhattan, Sweden, formed in 2015, delivering emotionally charged progressive thrash from the Falls city. They bring over a decade of passionate metal.
Power and thrash metal band from Herenthout, Belgium, formed in 2014, delivering an energetic fusion of melodic power metal hooks and thrash metal aggression. They represent the heavier side of the Belgian metal scene.
Operating from the rural Emsland district since 2009, Parity Boot fuses industrial metal's mechanical pulse with electronic experimentation. Their Lower Saxon countryside setting provides an unlikely home for their cold, machine-driven sound.
Thrash and death metal band from Schmelz, Germany, formed in 2019, combining the speed of thrash with the brutality of death metal. Their provocative name matches the intensity of their sonic assault.
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