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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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Livorno-based thrash/stoner metal act active since 2013, fusing thrash metal's riff-driven aggression with stoner metal's fuzz-drenched groove. Their unconventional hybrid delivers both headbanging intensity and heavy, laid-back swagger.
German black/death metal band from Cham in the Upper Palatinate, formed in 2020. They forge shadow-burnt black/death metal from the Bavarian Forest.
Towering Stoner / Doom Metal out of Texas.
Estonian melodic death metal and metalcore band from Tallinn, active since 2006. With nearly two decades of experience, they are a cornerstone of Estonia's melodic extreme metal scene.
Finnish death/post-metal band from Tampere, formed in 2025. They merge death metal intensity with post-metal's atmospheric breadth.
Eindhoven-based groove metal/metalcore outfit active since 2007, combining crushing syncopated riffs with metalcore's dynamic song structures and breakdown-heavy approach. Their sound bridges pit-ready heaviness with modern extreme metal aggression.
Oslo-based doom/sludge outfit active since 2018, dragging their compositions through a swamp of distortion, feedback, and crushing tempos. Their sound sits at the punishing intersection where doom metal's patience meets sludge's confrontational aggression.
Burn the Mankind is a technical death metal and grindcore band from Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, founded by guitarist Marcos Moura, a former member of Brazilian death metal act Nephasth. The band released their debut album "To Beyond" in 2015 and followed it with the conceptual EP "Chaos Matter" in 2020 via Cianeto Discos, the latter built around the four phases of human alchemy. Their current lineup includes members with ties to several prominent Brazilian extreme metal bands.
Falun-based groove metal act active since 2016, anchoring their sound in mid-tempo, syncopated riffing designed to generate maximum physical impact. Their chunky, headbang-inducing compositions channel the spirit of Pantera and Lamb of God.
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