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Divine (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/07 @ Gramercy Theatre, New York
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Härdsmälta is a raw black metal project from Halmstad, Sweden, active since 2017 and dealing in lo-fi, primitive black metal hostility stripped to its most essential and aggressive core. The project embraces the rawest traditions of the genre.
Härem is a heavy/progressive metal band from Madrid, Spain, formed in 2018. They craft intricate progressive compositions with technical ambition.
Thrash metal act from Rennes with black and death metal influences, active since 2013. Their genre-blending approach from Brittany's capital creates a distinctive hybrid of thrash aggression and extreme metal darkness.
Spanish raw black metal project with a catalog spanning "Guillotine," "Deathlust," and "Apex Predator" alongside a collaborative release with Opresija titled "Kali Yuga Aural Terror." Their extreme metal output channels relentless aggression through deliberately unpolished sonic violence.
Stoner Metal/Rock force from Avesta, grim and relentless since 2020. Their compositions channel the spirit of their genre through conviction and craft.
Dark grindcore/crust punk project from Jyväskylä, carving a path through Finland's underground since 2011. Their work explores the genre's heaviest territories through savage delivery.
Drawing from Växjö's metal heritage, this black metal outfit channels fierce energy since 2017. Icy melodies interwoven with blast-beaten fury characterize their output.
Häxdoktor is a raw black metal, noise project from Wrocław, Poland, active since 2022 and dealing in lo-fi, primitive black metal hostility stripped to its most essential and aggressive core. The project embraces the rawest traditions of the genre.
Black metal project from Essen, Germany, active since 2016. Their occult-inflected name and sound draw on witchcraft traditions, channeling dark ritual into black metal from the Ruhr region.
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