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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
06/11 @ Rebellion Manchester, Manchester
Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Stoner metal act from Samara on the Volga, active since 2016. Crucifuzz delivers heavy, fuzzed-out grooves from the central Russian river city.
Crucifyce is a thrash/groove metal band from Uberaba, Minas Gerais, Brazil, formed in 2016. Their debut album "Freedom Is Gone," released in May 2016, is a 12-track record whose lyrics address themes of war, death, and human fragility, delivered with a raw, aggressive sound rooted in Brazilian thrash tradition. The band features vocalist Tayssa fronting a four-piece lineup active on Bandcamp and streaming platforms.
Crucifyter is a death metal band from Sete Lagoas, Minas Gerais, Brazil, widely cited as the first death metal act from that city, with roots tracing back to 1988. The band has maintained a presence in the Brazilian underground death metal scene for decades, with tracks such as "Undelusion" available on SoundCloud. They are catalogued on Metal Archives as an active act within the Brazilian extreme metal community.
Russian black metal project formed in 2025. Crucium channels raw black metal aggression.
Miami doom and sludge outfit dragging Southern heaviness through the swampy heat of South Florida. Their music is slow, crushing, and suffocating — built for maximum punishment.
Black metal band from Berlin, Germany, active since 2006. With nearly two decades of activity, Cruda Sorte are established figures in the Berlin black metal underground.
Death metal and grindcore band from Enontekio in Finnish Lapland, active since 2013. They deliver grinding extremity from one of the most remote regions in the Finnish metal scene.
Black metal band from Munster, Germany, formed in 2015. They deliver raw, uncompromising black metal from the Westphalian heartland.
Thrash metal band from Turku, Finland, formed in 2020. They deliver aggressive thrash from Finland's oldest city.
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