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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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A harsh raw black metal/ambient entity from Sweden, active since 2023. Steeped in second-wave tradition, their work explores misanthropy and desolation.
Black metal project from Westerengel, Germany, formed in 2018. Their name meaning 'Hellstorm,' they channel ferocious black metal from the rural reaches of Thuringia.
Blackened thrash metal band from Aurich, Germany, active since 2013. Their fierce fusion of blackened atmosphere and thrash metal speed rages from the East Frisian coast.
Hörnhammer is a black metal project from Taranto, Italy, active since 2016 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Italy black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Hørdür is a grindcore act from Lyon, France, active since 2017 and delivering chaotic, ferocious bursts of extreme music at breakneck velocity. The project channels the genre's most frenzied and violent impulses.
Brutal death metal project from Lyon, newly formed in 2026. The freshest addition to France's second city's extreme metal scene, promising unrelenting brutality.
Black metal project from Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, formed in 2020. Drawing on the dark mysticism of their Balkan homeland, they craft atmospheric black metal that evokes ancient forests and forgotten realms.
Prolific Austrian black metal project formed in 2021, with a staggering output of over a dozen releases including In Oblivionem, The Immanent Curse, and Drawing Down Daemons From the Stars. Their dark, occult-themed work spans atmospheric and raw black metal with deeply conceptual underpinnings.
Hürlement is a heavy metal band from Paris, France, active since 2009 and forging classic heavy metal with conviction and power. The project channels the timeless spirit of traditional metal riffage.
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