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Featured Album
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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Black/Viking Metal, Progressive Black Metal act from Bergen in Norway, active since 2004 and delivering raw extremity. Their approach balances melodic undertones with the genre's most aggressive impulses.
Seattle's Hades Bellum brings a merciless black/death metal hybrid to the Pacific Northwest underground, with a name that invokes the god of the underworld alongside the Latin word for war. Founded in 2024, they're one of the newer and more aggressive acts to emerge from the city's extreme scene.
Death metal and grindcore act from Toulon on the Mediterranean coast, active since 2018. Their mucous name matches a visceral, slimy approach to extreme metal from Provence's naval port.
Bred in Brighton's underground, this act delivers dark death metal since 2017. Cavernous production and rhythmic complexity define their death metal approach.
Dark heavy/doom metal emanating from London, active since 2023 within United Kingdom's metal scene. Classic metal craftsmanship and energetic delivery define their approach.
Heavy/thrash metal band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2022. Their powerful crossover blends heavy metal weight with thrash metal speed from the Catalan capital.
Hades Nexus 16 is a industrial black metal project from Tuscany, Italy, active since 2020 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Italy black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Forged in Tromsø's metal community, this melodic black/death metal act channels punishing aggression since 2017. Icy melodies interwoven with blast-beaten fury characterize their output.
A relentless doom/post-metal/rock entity from France, active since 2020. Monolithic compositions and oppressive atmospheres define their crushing sound.
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