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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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Veteran Czech grindcore band from Rosice, active since 1999 and delivering decades of punishing, blast-beat-driven extremity. Their longevity in the Czech grindcore underground speaks to an unwavering commitment to the genre's most abrasive impulses.
Slam/brutal death metal and grindcore band from Vantaa, active since 2012 and delivering the most extreme, deliberately offensive sonic violence in the Finnish underground. Their provocative name matches their commitment to pushing boundaries of heaviness.
Death metal band from Vigo in Galicia, active since 2015 and delivering brutal extremity from Spain's northwestern Atlantic coast. Their Spanish name meaning "cradle of hate" captures the seething aggression at the core of their sound.
Part of the Gothenburg school's homeland, this act channels black metal with a focus on icy tremolo lines cascading over relentless percussion. Formed in 2023, based in Uppsala, their sound honors the second wave while forging its own path.
Bavarian black metal project formed in 2012 with a Swedish name meaning "king's grave." Their Scandinavian-influenced black metal channels cold, dark atmospheres from the forests of southern Germany.
Ozark, Alabama's Kunikos has been developing melodic death metal since 2023 in a part of the South more associated with country music than tremolo picking. Their dedication to the genre in such an unlikely locale speaks to the reach of melodic death metal into the farthest corners of the American underground.
Thrash/heavy metal band from Kouvola, formed in 2022 with a Finnish name meaning "king." Their regal name pairs with commanding thrash metal that channels royal authority through riff-driven aggression.
Italian atmospheric black metal and black metal act, active since 2026 delivering second-wave ferocity filtered through modern production sensibilities. Rooted in a scene steeped in operatic grandeur and crushing heaviness, their recordings conjure desolation through sheets of tremolo-picked guitar.
Depressive/post-black metal project from Brunswick in Lower Saxony, formed in 2019 with a clinical, institutional-sounding name. Their sound channels emotional devastation through bleak, atmospheric compositions.
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