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Featured Album
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)
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Heavy metal band from Osnabruck in Lower Saxony, active since 2014 and delivering riff-driven traditional metal with classic energy. Their decade of output represents a consistent presence in the northwestern German metal scene.
Stoner/doom metal band from Angus in eastern Scotland, active since 2012 and channeling the bleak Scottish landscape into heavy, fuzz-laden doom. Their sound merges stoner metal's groove with doom's oppressive weight.
Parisian goregrind outfit formed in 2010, delivering short, frenzied bursts of grinding extremity rooted in the genre's lo-fi, splatter-obsessed traditions. Their approach favors raw, unpolished blasts of noise over technical refinement.
Black metal project from the UK, active since 2016 and likely named after Alice Kyteler, the first person condemned for witchcraft in Ireland. The project channels black metal's dark heritage through themes of occultism and persecution.
A product of Italy's deep-rooted extreme metal underground, this Bologna-based black metal act channels raw, lo-fi aggression channeled through kvlt aesthetics. Active since 2016, lo-fi authenticity lends their recordings a genuinely oppressive character.
Moscow death/groove metal band active since 2017 with albums including Moonseeker, Past to Become, War Dominion, and a self-titled release. Part of the new wave of Russian heavy metal, their sound pairs death metal's intensity with groove metal's rhythmic punch.
Black metal project from Lahti, active since 2015 with a Finnish name meaning "viper." Their venomous name captures the dangerous, striking intensity of their black metal from Finland's southern interior.
Black metal/dungeon synth project from Vantaa near Helsinki, formed in 2024 and blending raw black metal with medieval-influenced electronic atmospheres. Their Finnish name meaning "adder" or "viper" adds a serpentine menace to their dual-genre approach.
A product of Scandinavia's melodic death metal epicenter, this Gothenburg-based progressive metal act channels Opeth-school dynamics married to modern progressive sensibility. Active since 2003, their catalog reveals a band unafraid to explore the darker corners of heavy music.
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