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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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Turin band formed in 2014, evolving from gothic metal origins into post-metal territory. Their stylistic evolution reflects an expanding sonic palette, moving from gothic metal's dark romanticism toward post-metal's atmospheric expansiveness.
Stoner metal band from Leipzig, formed in 2019 and delivering fuzz-drenched, psychedelia-tinged heaviness from Saxony's cultural capital. Their sound rides the slow-burning grooves characteristic of the European stoner metal underground.
Doom metal band from Oulu, active since 2008 and delivering nearly two decades of crushing heaviness from northern Finland. Their Cyrillic-styled name and Russian-language lyrics set them apart from the typical Finnish metal landscape.
Erupting out of Everett, Washington in 2024, Kyphosis fuse brutal death metal and grindcore with jarring industrial textures — a collision of brute force and mechanical hostility that feels genuinely new even by extreme metal standards.
Progressive metal/rock project from London, active since 2013 and exploring the expansive terrain between progressive rock's experimental ambition and metal's heavier tendencies. Their sound favors complex arrangements and dynamic shifts.
New York's Kyrios traffic in the no-man's-land between death and black metal, built on a foundation of malevolent riffing and cold, adversarial atmosphere since their 2020 formation.
Named after the Swedish word for graveyard, San Diego's Kyrkogård have been crafting black/doom metal since 2018 — slow, smothering, and steeped in the kind of bleak Nordic atmosphere rarely conjured from Southern California.
Black metal project from Turku, active since 2011 with a deliberately vulgar Finnish name. Their provocative approach pairs confrontational nomenclature with raw, uncompromising black metal.
Sisak-based death metal act, active since 2025 delivering HM-2 filth and d-beat fury in the old Swedish tradition. Rooted in a scene that blends Mediterranean atmosphere with extreme aggression, their approach favors no-frills brutality over technical showmanship.
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