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Featured Album
"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Formed by ex-Imprecation vocalist Grimlord. Beherit, Absu, and Gorgoroth in a dusty southern bar brawl. Split up in 2014 after thirteen years of filth.
Kyiv-based death metal act active since 2025, trafficking in the genre's essential currency of guttural vocals, down-tuned riffs, and relentless percussive punishment. Their compositions deliver uncompromising heaviness rooted in the old-school tradition.
Black metal/punk band from Prague, Czech Republic, formed in 2019. They fuse raw black metal with punk's rebellious energy in the Czech capital.
French black metal band from Nancy in Lorraine, formed in 2018. They deliver atmospheric black metal from the historic eastern French city.
Istanbul-based technical death metal act active since 2008, weaving labyrinthine guitar work and shifting time signatures into their extreme metal framework. Their compositions demand both virtuosity and visceral impact, balancing cerebral complexity with gut-level heaviness.
Since 2022, this Norwegian heavy metal act has kept the flame of traditional metal burning from Vadsø. Their sound is built on the genre's bedrock: powerful riffs, commanding vocals, and unwavering commitment.
Baixo Calão is a grindcore band from Belém, Pará, operating out of the Amazon region and representing one of the more distinctive voices in Brazil's northern underground extreme metal scene. Their sound is rooted in old-school grindcore — relentless blasts, caustic riffs — with lyrical themes targeting anti-religion, social decay, and political corruption. The band gained notable exposure through the European underground circuit, including a performance at the Obscene Extreme Festival in the Czech Republic.
Spanish heavy metal and hard rock band from Toledo, formed in 2013. They play classic heavy metal with hard rock swagger from the historic Castilian city.
Bajo el Exilio is a five-piece metalcore and hardcore band from Santiago, Chile, who have been active since around 2009–2010 and built a catalog spanning heavy studio albums and live recordings. Their releases include the EP Tras las Cadenas (2010), the full-length Nuestros Verdugos (2013), Resistance (2016), and Contraluz (2023), with the sprawling live-and-studio hybrid Entre Sombras y Ruido following in 2025. All production on Contraluz was handled in-house by guitarist Darío Llancamán, reflecting the band's self-sufficient approach to their craft.
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