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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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Swine of Dissent is a heavy and thrash metal band from Oklahoma City, formed in 2020, combining classic thrash aggression with traditional heavy metal songwriting.
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.
Crossover thrash band from Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, formed by vocalist Vinicius Blanc, guitarist Fabio Lannes, bassist Luciano Munhoz, and drummer Mauro Lopes. The band released the EP Batendo de Frente in 2021 on Extreme Sound Records, recorded at Tellus Studio in Niterói between October and December 2020.
Sword is a sludge and doom metal band from Richmond, Virginia, formed in 2015, drawing on that city's storied heavy underground to deliver low, slow, and punishing guitar-driven music.
Swordfish deliver thrash metal from Brno with the sharp precision their name implies, cutting through with tight riffing and aggressive energy. Active since 2016, they contribute to the Moravian capital's thriving thrash scene.
Gothenburg's Swordmaster have evolved from black metal to melodic death/thrash metal since their early years. Their weapon-wielder name and origins in the melodic death metal capital have produced compositions spanning the aggressive spectrum of Swedish extreme metal.
Gothenburg's Swordwielder merge crust punk, thrash, and doom metal from Sweden's metal capital since 2012. Over a decade of channeling their blade-bearer name into compositions of multi-genre heaviness that combine punk urgency with metallic weight.
San Francisco crossover thrash outfit active since 1998, drawing equally from Bay Area thrash tradition and hardcore punk to produce a fast, aggressive sound with strong street-level attitude.
Syanur plays thrash/death metal from the Bourgogne-Franche-Comte region, formed in 2022. Their name, a play on 'cyanure' (cyanide), signals the toxic intensity of their aggressive sonic cocktail.
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