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AntiFragile (2025)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Speed/thrash metal band from Bristol, England, formed in 2017 and delivering high-velocity riffing and aggressive tempos rooted in the classic speed and thrash metal traditions. Their sound channels the energy of early thrash with a raw, unpolished edge.
Kadabra is a heavy metal power trio from Vinhedo, São Paulo, Brazil, whose sound blends traditional heavy metal with Bay Area thrash influences and elements of Brazilian death metal. The band debuted with Devastation's Songs (2017) and followed with Remains of the Past (2019) before releasing Underground Resistance (2021), their first album recorded entirely in Portuguese.
Named after the mythical Lovecraftian city of the gods, Kadath are a funeral doom outfit from Ephrata, Pennsylvania, conjuring glacially slow, suffocating heaviness since 2018. Their music wallows in sorrow and enormity, built for listeners who find comfort in the abyss.
A product of Italy's deep-rooted extreme metal underground, this Milan-based death metal act channels percussive blast-beat onslaughts and cavernous production. Active since 2013, low-tuned guitars and guttural vocals form the bedrock of their attack.
The Swedish city of Lund serves as headquarters for this black metal and death metal operation, whose arsenal includes second-wave ferocity filtered through modern production sensibilities. Their recordings conjure desolation through sheets of tremolo-picked guitar.
A fresh-formed goregrind project launched in 2024, Kadavered traffics in the kind of blasting, guttural extremity that defines the most uncompromising end of American grind. Short, fast, and relentlessly ugly.
Berlin-based death metal project with releases including Perversa Mysteria and Radiance Of Doom, channeling dark and occult-tinged extreme metal. Originally from Moscow, the project relocated to Germany where a debut full-length album has been in development.
Dortmund-based sludge/death metal/grindcore outfit formed in 2018, delivering a filthy fusion of the heaviest extreme metal subgenres. Their confrontational name matches their uncompromising approach to sonic punishment.
Copenhagen stoner metal/rock outfit formed in 2021, whose self-described sound features "soaring riffs and infinite echoes" transporting listeners into psychedelic, otherworldly territory. Their zombie-inspired ethos channels heavy psychedelic metal with a horror-tinged aesthetic.
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