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AntiFragile (2025)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Ad Astra (2025)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Serpent & Spirit (2021)
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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Raw black metal project from Baden-Wurttemberg, active since 2008 and delivering deliberately lo-fi, stripped-back compositions. Their name meaning "colder" signals an even more extreme commitment to sonic frigidity than their implied peers.
Bavarian black metal project active since 2005, with a name translating to "death by cold" or "frost death." Their two decades of output channel mortal chill through raw, uncompromising black metal.
Swedish black metal project active since 2021. Their name, meaning 'fight' or 'struggle' in German, signals the combative intensity of their black metal.
Heavy metal/hard rock project from Finland, formed in 2020 with a playful Finnish name riffing on Gene Simmons of KISS. Their tongue-in-cheek approach delivers classic heavy rock with a Finnish sense of humor.
Speed/thrash metal band from Tartu, formed in 2017 and delivering high-velocity aggression with an Estonian identity. Their umlauted name and old-school approach channel the spirit of 1980s speed metal.
Black metal project from Furth in Franconia, formed in 2021 and delivering atmospheric compositions from the metropolitan area of Nuremberg. Their unusual name adds an enigmatic quality to their dark musical vision.
Part of Romania's darkly romantic metal heritage, this act channels black metal and speed metal with a focus on relentless velocity and old-school metal purity. Formed in 2026, the results are heavier and more inventive than the genre tag might suggest.
Swedish black metal project active since 2022. Their name, meaning 'harsh' or 'tough' in Swedish, captures the uncompromising character of their sound.
Melodic death/gothic metal project from Lohja in southern Finland, formed in 2024 with a Finnish name meaning "hand." Their sound pairs melodic death metal's aggression with gothic metal's dark beauty.
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