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Featured Album
"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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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Technical brutal death metal band from Barcelona, Spain, active since 2012. Their technically demanding approach pushes death metal to its most complex and punishing extremes.
Melodic death metal/metalcore band from Neuruppin, Germany, active since 2014. Their dynamic sound bridges Scandinavian-style melodic death metal with modern metalcore from Brandenburg.
Human Cometh is a heavy metal/hard rock band from Örebro, Sweden, active since 2013 and forging classic heavy metal with conviction and power. The project channels the timeless spirit of traditional metal riffage.
Virginia's Human Corpse Abuse arrived in 2022 as a death-grind outfit with a name designed to offend and music calibrated to match — short blasts of putrid brutality with no decorative ambitions whatsoever.
Human Cull is a grindcore act from Exeter, United Kingdom, active since 2011 and delivering chaotic, ferocious bursts of extreme music at breakneck velocity. The project channels the genre's most frenzied and violent impulses.
Death metal and grindcore act from Roanne in the Loire department, active since 2018. Their beer-themed name adds levity to a sound that grinds through brutal extremity from central France.
Melodic death metal band from Neumunster, Germany, active since 2011. Their melodic approach channels the Gothenburg tradition with refined guitar harmonies from Schleswig-Holstein.
Human Decay is a death metal band from Noisy-Le-Roi, France, active since 2014 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Human Decrepity is a slam/brutal death metal band from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2010. They unleash unrelenting brutal death metal fury.
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