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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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Rooted in Istanbul's underground, this brutal death metal project delivers thunderous compositions with conviction since 2018. Rooted in old-school traditions, their compositions deliver unrelenting heaviness.
Dutch metalcore project channeling vicious darkness since 2011. Their work contributes a distinctive voice to their regional underground scene.
Human Desolation is a melodic death metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, active since 2015 and blending melodic harmonies with death metal aggression. The project channels the twin-guitar traditions of Scandinavian-influenced melodeath.
Death metal band from Augsburg, Germany, active since 2003. Over two decades of unrelenting death metal make them one of the longest-running extreme acts in the Bavarian Swabian scene.
Punishing death/thrash metal emanating from Bari, active since 2013 within Italy's metal scene. Their work explores the genre's heaviest territories through savage delivery.
Human Devastation is a brutal death metal band from Mexico City, formed in 2004. The band released their debut full-length Condenación in 2013 and returned with Towards the Spectral World in 2024. They remain active and independent, with themes centered on madness, anti-religion, and misanthropy.
Fresh out of Chicago in 2025, Human Disgust bring a city-worn contempt to straightforward death metal with the kind of focused venom that only a scene as competitive as Chicago can produce. Early and already mean.
Atmospheric black metal band from Valencia, Spain, formed in 2020. Their ethereal sound layers rich atmospheric textures over black metal foundations from the Mediterranean coast.
Death metal/grindcore band from Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, formed in 2020. Their ferocious blast of brutality erupts from the Basque Country capital.
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