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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
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Camposampiero (Padua)-based melodic death metal act active since 2013, threading harmonized guitar leads and memorable hooks through aggressive, double-bass-driven arrangements. Their approach balances accessibility with genuine heaviness, drawing from the Gothenburg tradition.
Oakland's Barbarous is a death metal outfit that channels medieval battle, war, and gore into a sound rooted in the classic brutalist tradition of the genre.
A New Hampshire atmospheric black metal project, Barbarous Winds pursues the genre's most immersive and expansive tendencies, crafting vast, windswept soundscapes from a remote corner of the American underground.
Spanish heavy metal and hard rock band from Camarma de Esteruelas near Madrid, formed in 2014. They play classic, pirate-themed heavy metal with hard rock roots.
Jersey City's Barbarus melds the melodic sweep of melodic death metal with folk metal influences, weaving themes of death, war, and honor through an approach that has been active since 2015.
German black metal band formed in 2018. They deliver ferocious black metal with a primitive, untamed energy.
Arnhem-based stoner metal outfit active since 2021, channeling thick, fuzz-drenched riffs and a laid-back, groove-driven approach to heaviness. Their sound worships at the altar of the almighty riff, drawing from the deep wells of 1970s proto-metal and desert rock.
Barbatos were a brutal death metal band from Jandira, a city in the greater São Paulo metropolitan area, founded by drummer Chicão and guitarist Antônio Agaci with a focus on fast, punishing music in the tradition of Brazilian brutal death. The band released a self-titled CD of eight tracks before going inactive. Their name was drawn from demonic mythology — Barbatos being one of the demons said to serve Satanquia and Lucifer — in keeping with brutal death metal's genre aesthetics.
Szeged-based stoner metal outfit active since 2012, channeling thick, fuzz-drenched riffs and a laid-back, groove-driven approach to heaviness. Their sound worships at the altar of the almighty riff, drawing from the deep wells of 1970s proto-metal and desert rock.
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