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Featured Album
"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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Portuguese stoner/doom metal band from Leiria, delivering hazy, riff-driven heaviness since 2019. Their name captures the bewildering, disorienting character of their stoner doom approach.
Asheville's Lord of Diamonds blend thrash riffs, metalcore crunch, and death 'n' roll swagger into a rowdy, genre-defiant attack shaped by the mountains of western North Carolina.
Danish black metal project active since 2014, channeling infernal themes through raw black metal aggression. Their name evokes the occult, goat-worshipping imagery central to black metal's visual and sonic tradition.
Swedish progressive power metal band from Helsingborg, formed in 2020 and blending technical ambition with anthemic power. Their celestial name channels divine illumination through progressive power metal.
Swedish black metal band from Vilhelmina in the far north, channeling Arctic darkness since 2019. Their name claims dominion over the frozen north, reflecting the isolated, frigid character of their black metal.
Ukrainian death metal project formed in 2024, channeling pestilent darkness through raw brutality. Their name claims dominion over disease and destruction through death metal's devastating framework.
Swedish black metal project formed in 2022, channeling apocalyptic themes through raw intensity. Their name claims authority over finality itself, reflecting the absolute darkness of their approach.
Lord of the Lost was founded in Hamburg in 2007 by vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Chris Harms as a solo project before expanding into a full band. Crossing gothic metal, dark rock, and industrial influences, the group has released a series of albums on Napalm Records, beginning with Fears (2010) and continuing through Judas (2022). They gained international attention when they represented Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 with the single 'Blood & Glitter,' an appearance that brought their theatrical brand of dark rock to a mainstream European audience.
Italian stoner/doom metal and rock project formed in 2021, delivering time-stretching heaviness. Their name captures the slow, expansive character of their stoner doom approach.
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