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AntiFragile (2025)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Ad Astra (2025)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Serpent & Spirit (2021)
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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Nottingham-based sludge metal act active since 2019. Their occult name adds mystical overtones to heavy, abrasive compositions from the East Midlands underground.
Black metal project from Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, formed in 2023. Their Old Dutch-inflected name referencing witch hunters channels medieval occult themes into raw black metal.
Hænesy is a black metal project from Budapest, Hungary, active since 2017 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Hungary black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Melodic death metal band from Geneva, Switzerland, formed in 2020. Their Gothenburg-influenced approach brings sweeping melodic lines and aggressive rhythms to the Francophone Swiss metal scene.
Belfast-based stoner sludge metal project from Northern Ireland. Their ursine name matches heavyweight compositions blending stoner grooves with sludge metal's crushing abrasiveness.
Death thrash metal project from Zaragoza in Aragón, emerging in 2024. Their misanthropic name channels hatred for humanity into crushing thrash and death metal riffage from northeastern Spain.
Hérénoir is a black metal project from Langres, France, active since 2024 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the France black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Hëiligen is a traditional heavy metal band from Santiago, Chile, formed in the mid-2010s with a mission to carry forward the legacy of 1980s heavy metal in the style of Iron Maiden and Judas Priest. The band released the EP "Return to the Battle" before issuing their debut full-length "Shadows in the Church" in 2020 through Tradition Metálica Records, with lyrics addressing cosmology and critiquing organized religion.
Speed/thrash metal act from Belgium, formed in 2021. Their blistering approach combines the velocity of speed metal with thrash metal's aggressive edge in a whirlwind of headbanging intensity.
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