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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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Burbank, California death metal and grindcore band that has been active since 2008, contributing to the Los Angeles area's long history of extreme underground metal.
German heavy/power metal band from Bamberg, formed in 2024. They bring a fresh take on the classic German heavy and power metal tradition that the country is renowned for.
Chernihiv-based death metal/deathcore act active since 2015, fusing death metal's guttural extremity with modern breakdown-heavy dynamics. Their compositions alternate between blasting intensity and crushing, floor-dropping breakdowns.
Philadelphia power-violence and grindcore trio who describe their music as Eternal Microbursts of Electric Power, releasing a string of EPs and split 7-inches including records with Nimbus Terrifix and Chainsaw to the Face alongside albums such as Primordial Paranoia and Psychic Rot.
Sludge metal band from Glasgow, formed in 2019. They bring the weight and abrasive heaviness of the sludge tradition to the Scottish underground metal scene.
Finnish melodic death/thrash metal band from Joensuu, formed in 2011. They deliver backstabbing melodeath-thrash from the eastern Finnish lake district.
Backstroke is a thrash metal band from Brasília, Brazil, formed in 2019. Operating out of the capital's underground scene, the band channels straightforward, aggressive thrash in the Bay Area and Brazilian tradition. They remain active as an independent act in the Brasília metal community.
German thrash metal band from Beckum, formed in 2017. They deliver high-energy thrash metal with the aggression and speed the genre demands.
Olympia, Washington heavy metal band formed in 2024, joining the Pacific Northwest's active metal community with a traditional heavy metal approach.
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