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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
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Lausanne sludge metal and death'n'roll veterans active since 2002, evolving from their stoner rock roots into more complex, powerful metalesque songwriting across five studio albums. Fans praise their technical skill, awesome riffing, and unexpectedly humorous lyrics.
Czech black metal project from Kunovice, formed in 2021 with a name meaning "circle" in Czech. Their output channels bleak atmospheric black metal from the flatlands of southeastern Moravia.
Heavy metal and melodic hard rock/AOR band from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, active since 2003 and delivering over two decades of hook-laden, accessible metal from the Canary Islands. Their sound bridges classic heavy metal with the polished melodies of AOR.
Krull is a heavy/power metal band from Itu, São Paulo, Brazil, led by vocalist and guitarist Luís Domingos Krull. The band released "Metal Swords and Fire" in 2016 and followed it with "The Black Coast" in April 2018, the latter recorded and produced by Maurício "Bowie" Nogueira at Aquarela Studios in Itu, blending traditional heavy metal with viking and pagan metal influences.
Vicious Death / Thrash Metal (early); Thrash Metal / Grindcore (later) from Houston.
Straddling the line between death metal and melodic death metal, this Italian actfrom Pordenone fuses technically precise fretwork wrapped in visceral brutality into a cohesive whole. They've been at it since 2008, and their recordings carry the stench of early 90s death metal worship.
Largo, Florida's Krunch has been mixing power metal's soaring ambition with thrash metal's angular aggression since 2017. An unusual combination executed from the Gulf Coast, they bring melodic muscle and speed to a region with deep roots in extreme metal.
Death metal band from Kuopio in eastern Finland, active since 2011 and delivering over a decade of guttural extremity. Their Latin name meaning "blood" or "gore" captures the visceral nature of their death metal.
Krusader is a symphonic power metal band from Jundiaí, São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 1989. The band's debut album "Angus" (2006) is a concept record based on a fantasy saga with a cult following across South America, Japan, Korea, and Italy, featuring vocalist Rick Ricci (known from fellow Brazilian act Skyscraper) alongside guitarist Paulo Soares and keyboardist Fábio Thesta.
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