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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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Bala is a sludge metal and stoner rock duo from Galicia, Spain, formed in 2013 and consisting of guitarist/vocalist Anxela Baltar and drummer/vocalist Violeta Mosquera. Operating without a bassist, the pair construct a dense, fuzz-saturated sound rooted in heavy riffing and raw energy, with lyrics delivered in both Spanish and Galician. The band released two albums on Santiago de Compostela label Matapadre before signing with Century Media Records for Maleza in 2021.
Los Angeles black metal band formed in 2019, carving out a raw and underground presence in the Southern California extreme metal scene.
Finnish black metal project formed in 2023. They channel raw Finnish black metal from the depths of the Nordic underground.
Gothenburg-based death metal act active since 2022, 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.
Fort Worth heavy and power metal veterans active from 1992 through the Modern Metal label, contributing to the Texas power metal scene before eventually disbanding.
French brutal death metal and grindcore band from Saint-Omer in Pas-de-Calais, formed in 2017. They deliver terrifying blasts of brutal death-grind from the far north of France.
Spanish heavy/speed metal band from Valencia, formed in 2014. They deliver silver-bullet heavy and speed metal from the Mediterranean coast.
Thrash metal outfit from Dundalk, formed in 2019. Their compositions hit with the urgent intensity that defines the genre at its best: fast, tight, and unapologetically aggressive.
Balberith Incinerum is a black metal band from Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico, originally formed in 2007 and revived in 2022 under Blood Warfare Records. The band deals in raw, militaristic black metal centered on themes of war, anti-Christianity, blasphemy, and hate, releasing the EP Marchando hacia la dominación in 2023.
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