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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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Annville, Pennsylvania progressive metal veterans active since 1990, sharing stages with legends including U.D.O., Raven, and Paul Di'Anno throughout their career.
Balisttica is a heavy metal band from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, a city with a deep metal tradition that produced foundational Brazilian acts like Sepultura and Holocausto. Formed in 2025, the band is an early-stage act with minimal documented releases, playing traditional heavy metal within a scene that has long been one of Brazil's most fertile for the genre.
Pavlohrad-based black metal and ambient project active since 2013, dissolving the boundaries between extreme metal and dark electronic soundscaping. Their work oscillates between passages of black metal fury and extended ambient meditations.
Atmospheric black metal entity from Ukraine, formed in 2018. Their sound envelops the listener in walls of reverb-drenched tremolo picking and shimmering ambient passages that dissolve the boundary between beauty and ferocity.
Black metal act from Canon City, Colorado, operating in the American underground since 2005.
Sofia-based project founded in 2008 by Hristo Penev, evolving from folk/black metal roots into what they term "Vintage Dark Rock" with melancholic, oriental, and jazzy influences. Their 2013 album "Dustbowl" showcased a natural, acoustic-leaning vintage rock sound before the band disbanded in 2014.
Forged in 2012 from Rijeka, this black metal entity delivers uncompromising extremity built on icy tremolo riffs and relentless percussion. Their work carries the cold, misanthropic spirit that defines the genre's most devoted practitioners.
Czech metal trio from Brno formed in 2021, featuring bass/vocals, guitar, and drums. They released the Hunt for the Cure EP in 2022 followed by their debut full-length Slave to the Machine in 2023, blending heavy and thrash metal influences.
Thrash metal band from Austin, Texas, formed around 2021 and active in the city's heavy underground.
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