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Featured Album
"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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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German black metal band from Kulmbach in Bavaria, formed in 2018. They deliver raw black metal steeped in the darkness of the Franconian underground.
Solo industrial metal and post-rock project from Romney Marsh in Kent, led by multi-instrumentalist John Wood since 2003. Across thirteen releases including the full-length Stormprayer, the project blends programmed electronics with guitar-driven experimentation spanning industrial, post-rock, and ambient territories.
German melodic death metal and metalcore band from Fürstenwalde, formed in 2009. They fuse Scandinavian-style melodic death metal with the rhythmic intensity and breakdowns of metalcore.
German black metal and ambient project from Erkelenz, formed in 2021. They blend the ferocity of black metal with ambient soundscapes for an atmospheric, layered listening experience.
American death metal band channeling Satanic and occult darkness into their sound, active since 2023.
German groove/death metal band from Sinsheim, formed in 2010. They combine groove metal's heavy rhythmic foundation with death metal's guttural vocal assault.
Finnish doom metal and death 'n' roll band from Tampere, formed in 2023. They combine doom metal's crushing weight with death 'n' roll's groovy swagger.
Orlando black and death metal studio project formed in 2017, with two members crafting dense and atmospheric extreme metal from Central Florida.
Finnish black metal band from Jyväskylä, formed in 2012. They deliver cold, atmospheric black metal from the lake district of central Finland.
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