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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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Rochester's Last One on Earth drapes black metal's cold fury in doom's funeral weight, conjuring a sound built for the long, empty winters of upstate New York.
Spanish heavy metal band from Pamplona, forging classic heavy metal since 2012. Their sound channels the genre's timeless power through commanding riffs and anthemic songwriting.
German death metal band from Markneukirchen, emerging in 2020 with a commitment to the genre's brutal foundations. Their sound channels death metal's signature crushing intensity and guttural ferocity.
Dutch progressive metal band formed in 2017, delivering complex, structurally ambitious compositions. Their name captures the last-chance, final-stand energy of their progressive approach.
French metalcore band from Descartes, delivering crushing breakdowns and aggressive energy since 2016. Their sound channels metalcore's signature blend of hardcore punk and metal intensity.
French power metal band from Lailly-en-Val, formed in 2023 and forging epic, melodic anthems. Their sound channels classic European power metal's triumphant spirit and soaring melodies.
Tampa's Last Rite has spent over a decade honing a sound that trades off power metal's anthemic sweep against thrash's razor-wire attack, rooted in Florida's storied heavy metal tradition.
Speed metal delivered at maximum velocity with a thrash backbone, Los Angeles' Last Rites have been tearing up the West Coast scene since 2002.
Conyers, Georgia's Last Rites bring a Southern-fried intensity to straight-ahead thrash metal, active since 2002 and showing no signs of slowing the onslaught.
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