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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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Nashville's Halo Theory launched in 2023 blending the fist-pumping lift of power metal with the neck-snapping drive of groove, a combination that sounds right at home in a city that takes its heavy music seriously.
Fresh out of Asheville, North Carolina, Halogi arrived in 2025 flying the flag for soaring power metal in a city more often associated with folk and psych. Expect big riffs, bigger choruses, and the mountain air to carry them.
Fort Worth's Halopent have been running death and thrash together since 2018, sharpening the collision into something lean and punishing. Texas grit runs through every riff.
Halor is a heavy metal band from Szombathely, Hungary, active since 2021 and forging classic heavy metal with conviction and power. The project channels the timeless spirit of traditional metal riffage.
Rochester, New York's Halothane approach melodic and progressive death metal with the methodical focus the genre demands, weaving technical ambition into compositions that never lose their emotional thread. Active since 2019.
Black metal band from Mainz, Germany, active since 2015, telling tales about the forces of darkness and the unending battle within every living entity. Their album Sermons Of The Black Flame delivers skilled guitarwork, accomplished songwriting, and diverse vocals across eight tracks of melodically informed black metal.
Black metal project from Denmark, formed in 2020. Their name meaning 'Throat Fire' in Danish, they forge fierce black metal from the Scandinavian underground.
Halsfang is a black metal project from Toulouse, France, active since 2013 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the France black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Operating from Yaroslavl, this doom/death metal project has been shaping dark sound since 2013. Drawing on classic blueprints, they deliver visceral extremity with conviction.
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