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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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Kazan-based folk metal act active since 2006, weaving traditional melodies and acoustic instrumentation into a heavy metal framework. Their compositions bridge musical heritage with the power of electric amplification.
Cold, unrelenting black metal from Sweden, active since 2023. Their sound embodies the genre's core principles: razor-sharp tremolo picking, furious drumming, and an atmosphere thick with hostility and darkness.
Black metal project from Italy, emerging in 2020. Their compositions draw from the wellspring of second-wave Scandinavian tradition while filtering it through the cultural context of their Italian origins.
A melodic black metal project from Columbia, Missouri active since 2014, operating in the atmospheric end of the black metal spectrum.
A progressive/power metal band from New Bedford, Massachusetts active since 1998, whose name means Ram in Polish and Russian; their 2010 album Necessary Evil stands as their primary studio statement.
German black metal band from Thuringia, formed in 2016. They contribute to the Thuringian black metal underground with raw, uncompromising compositions.
A melodic death metal band from Long Island, New York formed in 2006, channeling themes of internal and external struggle through the genre's melodic aggression.
Finnish black/doom metal band from Kuopio, formed in 2016. They merge black metal darkness with doom metal's oppressive weight from the eastern Finnish lake country.
Rimini-based death metal act active since 2021, 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.
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