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Featured Album
"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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Idolatria is a black metal project from Pordenone, Italy, active since 2015 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Italy black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Central California's Orcutt-based death/groove/alternative hybrid brings an unpredictable stylistic restlessness to the table, fusing groove metal's rhythmic punch with death metal grit and alternative metal's appetite for texture.
Black metal from Marshalltown, Iowa — an act that proves the genre's nihilistic fire burns just as cold in the flat, windswept heartland as in any Scandinavian forest.
Pennsylvania's slam/brutal death/goregrind entity named after the world's largest mantis, matching that predator's lethality with a sound designed to maximize bodily damage per minute since 2023.
Idols Are Dead is a melodic thrash metal/metalcore band from Bologna, Italy, active since 2008 and delivering aggressive, riff-driven thrash with relentless intensity. The project channels the speed and fury of the genre.
Rochester, Minnesota's symphonic black metal project layers orchestral grandeur over a foundation of raw, blasting extremity — a dramatic, cinematic approach to darkness that elevates the genre's theatrical potential.
Idolator is a black metal project from Pinsk, Belarus, formed in 2022, forging raw and uncompromising black metal from the marshlands of the Polesie region. The band represents the expanding reach of Belarusian extreme metal beyond the capital city of Minsk.
IDPA is a depressive black metal project from Sinop, Turkey, active since 2024 and channeling despair and isolation through raw, emotionally charged black metal. The project explores the most sorrowful and bleak reaches of the genre.
Oklahoma City's atmospheric sludge/funeral doom practitioners have been building slow, suffocating cathedrals of sound since 2014 — oppressively heavy, devastatingly patient, and steeped in the flatland desolation of the Great Plains.
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