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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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Melodic blackened death metal act from northern Germany, active since 2019, spanning Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony. Their sound merges the melodic sweep of Scandinavian death metal with blackened ferocity.
Melodic black/death metal band from Stuttgart, Germany, active since 2015. Their atmospheric sound weaves melodic guitar leads through a foundation of black and death metal aggression from the capital of Baden-Wurttemberg.
Heavy metal band from Almansa, Spain, active since 2012. Their riff-driven approach delivers traditional heavy metal from the windswept plains of Albacete province.
Progressive death metal band from Oldenburg, Germany, formed in 2019. Their technically ambitious approach pushes death metal into progressive territory with intricate compositions and unconventional structures.
Scranton, Pennsylvania's Hallucination are death metal veterans in the truest sense — their formation date of 1969 makes them one of the stranger entries in any metal database, a pre-death metal act whose legacy stretches across decades of Pennsylvania's underground.
Rochester's Hallucination Realized play grindcore with the frantic urgency the format demands — short, explosive, and loud enough to rattle teeth. Part of a small but active upstate New York extreme underground since 2018.
Boston's Hallucivore arrived in 2025 fusing black and death metal in the tradition of the American underground — caustic, hostile, and pulling no punches. New England has a long black metal history, and this is a promising entry into it.
New York's Hallux carve out a sludge/doom sound built on weight and repetition — riffs that settle in and refuse to leave, tempos that drag the listener through the muck. Formed in 2018, location unspecified, but the music speaks clearly enough.
Halmony is a progressive metal with groove/rock influences band from Paris, France, formed in 2020. They craft intricate progressive compositions with technical ambition.
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