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Divine (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/07 @ Gramercy Theatre, New York
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Spanish goregrind pioneers from Coslada, formed in 1990 and signed to Relapse Records. Their seventh album We Are The Gore features guest appearances from members of Carcass, Impaled, and Ghoul, delivering scalpel-sharp riffs and triple-threat guttural vocals mastered by Brad Boatright.
Bred in Vernouillet's underground, this act delivers savage black metal since 2006. Their approach balances melodic undertones with the genre's most aggressive impulses.
Death Metal act from Norfolk in United Kingdom, active since 2018 and delivering vicious extremity. Their work explores the genre's heaviest territories through savage delivery.
Power metal band from Ciudad Real, Spain, active since 2010. Their soaring melodies and epic arrangements carry the European power metal tradition from the heart of La Mancha.
Haeresiarch is a epic heavy metal band from Rome, Italy, active since 1998 and forging classic heavy metal with conviction and power. The project channels the timeless spirit of traditional metal riffage.
Heavy metal band from Aue, Germany, formed in 2020. Their traditional approach honors the roots of heavy metal with powerful, riff-driven compositions from the Ore Mountains of Saxony.
Haeresys is a death/black/thrash metal band from L'Aquila, Italy, formed in 2017. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
Haeretic Winds is a black metal band from Teresina, Piauí, Brazil, active since around 2009. The band's themes center on anti-Christianity, Satanism, occultism, and war, operating as an independent underground outfit. Their releases include the EP Derrame o Sangue dos Puros and the recording Avante Tropas de Lúcifer.
Savage black/death metal project from Lille, carving a path through France's underground since 2015. Icy melodies interwoven with blast-beaten fury characterize their output.
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