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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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Power metal band from La Rinconada near Seville, formed in 2016 and delivering soaring, anthem-driven compositions from Andalusia. Their Cerberus-inspired name adds mythological gravitas to their epic sound.
Horror-oriented grindcore quartet from Brno, Czech Republic, with a catalog spanning releases like Tromaville, Cluster Headache, and Sila imaginace. Their B-movie-inspired approach pairs punishing grindcore blasts with a tongue-in-cheek horror aesthetic.
Kandelabrum was a doom and gothic metal band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, active from 2001. Their album Apocrypha, released in September 2001, contains seven tracks including "Rigor Mortis," "Whispers of Lilith," and "Pure Silence Perfect Darkness," drawing on funeral doom and gothic metal influences within the Brazilian underground scene.
When Kandinsky emerged in 2014 from Milan, they brought with them a sound rooted in heavy metal — all NWOBHM-rooted riffing with timeless melodic hooks. Twin-guitar interplay and vocal power form the backbone of their sound.
Black metal project from Cologne, Germany, formed in 2021 and delivering dark, intense compositions from the Rhineland underground. Their sound draws on classic second-wave traditions filtered through a modern German lens.
Black metal project from Greece, formed in 2024 and channeling the raw aggression of the genre through a Hellenic lens. The project draws from Greece's rich tradition of atmospheric and aggressive black metal.
Phoenix black metal solo project Kaneq has been operating in the Arizona underground since 2013, conjuring a scorched, arid take on a genre more commonly associated with frozen northern landscapes. The desert context gives their black metal a uniquely harsh, sun-bleached quality.
Black metal project from Jyvaskyla, formed in 2020 and channeling the dark forests of central Finland into atmospheric compositions. Their Finnish name adds local character to their cold, Nordic black metal.
Atmospheric black metal project from Thuringia, Germany, active since 2005 and building expansive, nature-inspired soundscapes over two decades of output. Their long tenure in the German atmospheric black metal underground speaks to a distinctive and enduring vision.
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