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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Philadelphia groove metal pioneers who helped define the metallic hardcore sound of the mid-2000s. One of the most influential heavy bands to emerge from the Philly scene.
A Light in the Dark blends atmospheric and post-black metal with shoegaze from Podolsk near Moscow since 2015. Their luminous name guides compositions that find brightness within extreme metal's typical darkness.
Boston thrash metal project. The religious imagery of ongoing sacrifice channels spiritual intensity through speed and aggression.
Nashville, Tennessee death metal project delivering funeral rites fueled by contempt. Music City extremity far from the country music strip.
Budapest's A Losing Season blend melodic death metal with progressive sensibilities, crafting emotionally charged compositions that balance aggression with melodic depth. Since 2008, they've been a respected presence in Hungary's melodeath scene.
A Loss for Words came out of Abington, Massachusetts after an earlier run as Last Ride, and their best-known work sits at the bright, muscular edge of New England pop punk. The band built its reputation through basement-show energy, hook-driven choruses, and an easycore streak that let the guitars hit harder than the average melodic punk record. The Kids Can't Lose captured the core sound with fast tempos, gang vocals, and songs about friendship, distance, and growing up inside a scene that demanded constant movement. No Sanctuary and Before It Caves pushed the writing toward bigger production without losing Matty Arsenault's direct, conversational vocal style. Their Motown Classics covers record also showed a band willing to treat pop songwriting as something compatible with punk urgency rather than separate from it. A Loss for Words' importance is not about reinvention; it is about craft, endurance, and regional credibility. They sounded like people who understood that a good chorus can carry the same cathartic weight as a breakdown when the arrangement is tight and the feeling is honest.
A Lot Like Birds formed in Sacramento in 2009 around guitarist and songwriter Michael Franzino's sprawling, collaborative approach to post-hardcore. Their debut Plan B introduced a restless sound built from tangled guitar lines, orchestral touches, abrupt rhythmic turns, spoken-word passages, and chaotic vocal exchanges. The band's profile grew after Kurt Travis joined, and Conversation Piece pushed their writing toward a sharper blend of melody, technical motion, and theatrical intensity. No Place followed with a concept-driven structure that gave the band's experimental side a more focused emotional arc, balancing dense arrangements with memorable hooks and dramatic dynamic shifts. DIVISI later moved into cleaner textures and moodier songwriting while keeping the band's interest in unconventional structure intact. After ending activity in 2018, A Lot Like Birds returned in the mid-2020s with a revised lineup and new music, keeping the project tied to adventurous post-hardcore rather than nostalgia alone.
West Covina, California metalcore project. The dramatic name — love's conclusion driving self-destruction — channels emotional devastation through heavy music from the San Gabriel Valley.
Coming out of the Stubaital valley in Tyrol, A Man a Wolf a Killer play a hard-edged metalcore with aggressive riffing and dark lyrical themes built around wolves, death, and plague. The band released two full-lengths — Wolfthrasher in 2011 and Deathbringer in 2017 — maintaining a small but dedicated following in the underground metalcore scene.
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