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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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Hailing from Heerhugowaard in Netherlands, this heavy/thrash metal outfit channels aggressive energy since 2019. Their thrash assault combines speed, aggression, and precision in equal measure.
Spawned in Huddersfield's underground, this thrash/progressive metal outfit channels british ferocity since 2022. Razor-sharp riffing and breakneck tempos carry the spirit of classic thrash.
Hallowedland is a progressive metal/rock, electronic band from Poland, formed in 2022. They craft intricate progressive compositions with technical ambition.
Detroit's Halloween carry the torch for classic American heavy metal, a city-fitting lineage given Detroit's deep rock and roll roots. Active since 2015, they deal in the kind of no-frills, riff-driven metal that doesn't need to be fashionable to work.
Santa Clara's Halloween play heavy metal with hard rock instincts — melodic, energetic, and rooted in the kind of song-first approach that made the genre commercially viable in the first place. A Bay Area act keeping the classic sound alive since 2015.
Gothic metal band from Vienna, Austria, blending dark melancholy with heavy riffs. Their sound draws on the tradition of European gothic metal, merging clean and harsh vocal styles with atmospheric arrangements.
Atlanta thrash pioneers Hallows Eve have been at it since 1985, predating most of the genre's defining records and helping establish the Southern US as a legitimate player in extreme metal's early years. Their aggressive, speed-forward approach influenced a generation of acts and they remain one of Georgia's most important metal exports.
Heavy/thrash metal and hardcore punk band from Gladbeck, Germany, formed in 2018. Their energetic crossover fuses the riffing power of thrash with the raw intensity of hardcore punk from the Ruhr Valley.
Phoenix's Halls of Mandos take their name from Tolkien's realm of the dead and build their sound accordingly — doom-laden, post-metal architecture with industrial undercurrents that give the music a cold, machine-like dread. An intriguing young project born in 2023.
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