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Featured Album
"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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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German heavy metal and hard rock band from Hankensbuttel formed in 2021, blending classic heavy metal power with hard rock accessibility. Their sound occupies the energetic middle ground between arena-ready rock hooks and metal muscle.
Austin thrash dealers who have been delivering riff-driven punishment since 2018, channeling the Bay Area's bay-area fury through a distinctly Texas lens.
Spanish psychedelic doom/stoner metal band from Vitoria-Gasteiz, delivering hazy, mind-expanding heaviness since 2011. Their catalog including 'Drown' and 'No Fun Intended' channels psychedelic exploration through crushing doom and stoner grooves.
Swedish power metal band from Gothenburg, forging epic anthems since 2022. Based in Sweden's metal capital, their sound channels the city's rich heritage through triumphant power metal.
Queens-bred and uncompromising, Last Legion fuses black metal's icy hostility with death metal's brutality into a sound that feels like the borough's concrete compressed into sound.
Greek progressive metal/metalcore band from Athens, blending technical ambition with hardcore aggression. Their approach merges progressive complexity with metalcore's dynamic intensity.
Last Man's Breath is a melodic post-black metal band from Bogotá, Colombia, formed in 2018. The band released a self-titled EP in 2020 and appeared on the split "Agnosia" in 2021, exploring themes of existentialism, fear, isolation, and the human condition.
German death metal act from Weyhe near Bremen, debuting with a five-track self-titled demo in 2014. Their songs including 'Bloodbath' and 'War Rises' deliver straightforward death metal aggression across 21 minutes of unrelenting heaviness.
Out of Benton City, Washington, Last Nerve blends groove metal's mid-tempo swagger with thrash's serrated edge — a band formed in 2021 with something to prove and the riffs to back it up.
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