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"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
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Moscow doom/death metal act formed in 2019, delivering bilingual Russian-English compositions with titles like Ordeal/Тяжёлые шаги and Breath of Winter/Дыхание зимы. Their approach blends doom metal's crushing weight with death metal's guttural intensity across introspective, winter-themed material.
Black/speed metal band from Sinj, Croatia, formed in 2020 and merging black metal's atmospheric darkness with speed metal's relentless velocity. Their full name, Krucificadores de la Santa Barbara, adds a grandiose, religious dimension to their aggressive sound.
Devotees of thrash metal, this Portuguese outfit from Porto has been refining their craft since 2016. Their sound hinges on circle-pit anthems driven by relentless double-kick propulsion, delivered with punishing consistency.
Finnish black metal project formed in 2018, evoking imagery of crucifixion in the forest through their name. Their woodland-crucifixion theme channels the intersection of Christian suffering and pagan nature.
Black metal band from Sobienie-Jeziory near Warsaw, formed in 2023. Their Polish name meaning "crusade" signals a martial, zealous approach to the raw intensity of black metal.
Groove metal band from Schwelm in the Ruhr area of Westphalia, formed in 2018 and delivering thick, rhythmically heavy compositions. Their no-frills name matches their direct, riff-centered approach.
Devotees of death metal, this Slovak outfit from Stupava has been refining their craft since 2020. Their sound hinges on Florida-school brutality with modern precision, delivered with dogged persistence.
Krueger is a death/thrash metal band from Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brazil, formed in 1987. The band's lineup has included Adriano Caminha on vocals and guitar, Zé Carlos on bass, and Maurício Mocardo on drums, and they released the full-length "Turn On to Death" in 2001 through Destroyer Records, recorded at Prosound Studio in Campina Grande.
Kruelty is a death/thrash metal band from Poços de Caldas, Minas Gerais, Brazil, formed in 2017. The band released a live album, "Kruelty Live in Poços de Caldas," in June 2017, featuring nine tracks including a cover of Cannibal Corpse's "Hammer Smashed Face," and later released the "Five Years of Blasphemy" full discography compilation.
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