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Featured Album
Divine (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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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Orlando progressive and sludge metal band active from around 2013, blending slow-burning sludge weight with progressive song structures in the fertile Florida extreme metal underground.
French heavy metal band from Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, formed in 2016. They play classic heavy metal from the sunny south of France.
Oakland sludge metal and crust band active from around 2013, fusing the abrasive weight of sludge with the rawer urgency of crust punk.
Springfield, Oregon black metal solo project formed in 2021, channeling raw atmospheric black metal through a deeply personal and introspective lens.
West Haven, Connecticut heavy metal band formed in 1985, building a following in the Connecticut underground before going on hiatus.
Flint, Michigan heavy metal and hard rock band rooted in Midwest metal traditions, releasing guitar-driven material since the mid-2010s.
Massachusetts experimental death metal project formed in 2019, pushing the genre's structural limits through unconventional song construction and disorienting tonal choices.
Brookfield, Wisconsin progressive and thrash metal band that eventually changed names, blending technically demanding thrash riffing with progressive song arrangements.
Belfast heavy outfit active since 2003, described as doom meeting stoner meeting heavy blues meeting psychedelic proto-punk in a back-alley knife fight. Their discography from Oblivion Switch through Drown the Phoenix spans nearly two decades of genre-defying heaviness rooted in the Northern Irish underground.
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