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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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Spanish black/death metal band from Lugo in Galicia, formed in 2012. They forge prophetic black/death metal from the ancient Roman-walled city of northwestern Spain.
Spanish black/doom metal band from Barcelona, formed in 2012. They wield a dark, sword-bearing blend of black and doom metal from the Catalan capital.
Hailing from Everett, Washington, Barbarian Wasteland trades in the slow, haze-soaked intersection of doom and stoner metal, carving out a groove-oriented sound since 2019.
Alessandria-based power metal act active since 2021, delivering anthemic heavy metal built on soaring vocals, galloping rhythms, and melodic guitar leads. Their compositions embrace the genre's tradition of epic songwriting and technical proficiency.
A brutal death metal act from Williamson, West Virginia, Barbaric Disembowelment leans into gore and depravity as lyrical fodder, occupying the most visceral end of the genre's spectrum.
Barbaric Exsanguination operates in the punishing overlap of slam and brutal death metal, with a 2024 compilation appearance on Liminal Dread Productions' Heavy for the Hollers marking their entry into the underground.
Phoenix black metal act Barbaric Hatred channels themes of barbarism, war, and strength through a raw, uncompromising sound, contributing to a Darkthrone tribute compilation through Plague Demon Records in 2021.
Barbarie is a heavy metal band from Berazategui, Buenos Aires, Argentina. The band has released two full-lengths: "Batallas de Liberación" (2013), a nine-track album drawing on Argentine history and featuring guest appearances from notable figures in the local heavy metal scene, and "Hacia un Nuevo Horizonte" (2017).
Philadelphia death metal stalwarts Barbarism have been operating since 2004, releasing their self-produced EP Exposure to Madness in 2008 and maintaining an independent presence in the underground for two decades.
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