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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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Punishing death metal project from Azores, carving a path through Portugal's underground since 2019. Cavernous production and rhythmic complexity define their death metal approach.
Human Hate was a downtuned sludge doom hardcore trio from Jundiaí, São Paulo, Brazil, featuring Thales Gory on guitar, bass, and vocals alongside Davi on vocals and ET on drums. The band released the live EP Eternal Torture - Doomed and Live in August 2019, recorded at Sotão Estudio, before splitting up.
Heavy speed metal act from Belfort near the Swiss border, active since 2020. Their lunar name adds atmospheric mystique to compositions channeling classic speed metal energy from eastern France.
Operating from Pordenone, this progressive metal project has been shaping crushing sound since 2018. Their sound delivers the intensity their genre demands with focused execution.
Sludge/doom metal band from Langenzenn, Germany, active since 2012. Their suffocating blend of sludge heaviness and doom metal weight delivers crushing compositions from the Franconian countryside.
Industrial death metal band from Sjaelland, Denmark, active since 2015. Their mechanized approach fuses the cold precision of industrial music with death metal brutality.
Human Machine of Hate is a death/thrash metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2018. Their debut release, The Negativity Core (December 2018), is a five-track record blending death and thrash metal with politically and socially critical Portuguese- and English-language lyrics.
Melodic death/groove metal band from Franconia/Bavaria, Germany, formed in 2026. The freshest melodic death-groove voice in the Bavarian scene, they blend catchy melodies with heavy grooves.
Human Meat is a grindcore act from France, active since 2019 and delivering chaotic, ferocious bursts of extreme music at breakneck velocity. The project channels the genre's most frenzied and violent impulses.
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