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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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Hurricane is a death metal band from Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur, France, active since 2017 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Hurrockaine is a heavy metal, hard rock, grunge band from Sosnowiec, Poland, active since 2017 and forging classic heavy metal with conviction and power. The project channels the timeless spirit of traditional metal riffage.
Rising from Torquay in United Kingdom, this sludge metal/hardcore outfit harnesses furious power since 2025. Tight compositions and aggressive delivery characterize their particular approach.
Chicago thrash-metalcore band Hurtlocker formed in 1998 and released a series of demos before issuing Fear in a Handful of Dust (2005) and Embrace the Fall (2007) on Napalm Records. Their sound bridged the aggressive thrash metal of the Bay Area with the metalcore aggression prominent in the mid-2000s American heavy scene. The band has since dissolved, leaving behind a compact catalog that reflected the crossover moment between those two worlds.
Black metal project from Edinburgh, active since 2018. Their dark compositions draw on the gothic atmosphere of the Scottish capital, channeling cold fury through raw black metal.
Bedroom black metal and death drone project. Merges early 90s black metal with Broken Flag-style industrial and Lustmord-esque dark ambient.
Hailing from Taunton in United Kingdom, this sludge/stoner metal outfit channels aggressive energy since 2021. Energetic performances and committed songwriting define their approach.
Based in Riga, this thrash/death metal project has been a fixture of Latvia's underground since 2016. Rooted in old-school traditions, their compositions deliver unrelenting heaviness.
Huszar is a one-man progressive post-black metal and ambient project from San Antonio de Padua, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, formed in 2015. The project released the full-length "Los Nuevos Absolutos De Todos Los Días Quemados" in October 2016 and its sequel "Los Nuevos Absolutos: Acto Segundo" in February 2017, and also contributed to a split release with Youth Against Christ in 2017.
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