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"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
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Multi-faceted extreme act from Lausanne, Switzerland, evolving from sludge/southern metal to death/sludge metal with hardcore since 2013. Their stylistic evolution reflects a restless creative spirit.
Burieth is a death metal band from Medellín, Colombia that formed in the mid-1990s and later split up. Their 1995 demo Ancestral Legacy features seven tracks blending English and Spanish lyrics, and the track "Desolacion" appeared on the 2001 Sylphorium Records/Tribulación Productions compilation Emetic Desecration: Brutal Grind Death Metal Compilation.
Burieth is a death metal band from Medellín, Colombia that formed in the mid-1990s and later split up. Their 1995 demo Ancestral Legacy features seven tracks blending English and Spanish lyrics, and the track "Desolacion" appeared on the 2001 Sylphorium Records/Tribulación Productions compilation Emetic Desecration: Brutal Grind Death Metal Compilation.
Hertfordshire-based stoner/sludge metal outfit active since 2016, laying down thick, fuzz-caked riffs that move at a lumbering, hypnotic pace. Their sound occupies the hazy intersection where stoner metal's psychedelic warmth meets sludge's abrasive hostility.
Stockholm-based industrial metal act active since 2019, fusing mechanical rhythms and electronic textures with heavy guitar distortion. Their cold, precise sound channels the genre's tradition of merging human aggression with machine-like efficiency.
Melodic death metal outfit from Kyiv, formed in 2022. Twin-guitar harmonies and soaring lead work temper the brutality of blast beats and growled vocals, creating compositions that are both punishing and anthemic.
German metalcore and hardcore band from Potsdam, formed in 2015. They deliver aggressive metalcore from the Brandenburg capital.
German melodic death metal band from Dresden, formed in 2015. They craft edenic melodic death metal from the Saxon capital's thriving metal scene.
Spanish heavy/thrash metal band from Bilbao, formed in 2018. They deliver hellfire heavy and thrash metal from the Basque industrial heartland.
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