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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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Finnish funeral doom metal band from Jyvaskyla, crafting glacially-paced compositions since 2009. Their sound channels the sub-genre's most extreme slowness and overwhelming weight through sustained, mourning-drenched heaviness.
Missouri's Lordchain have been grinding out heavy metal and hard rock from Caruthersville since 2002, a rare and tenacious presence in the region's heartland metal scene.
Finland's Lordi shocked the world by winning the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest in full monster costumes with the hard rock anthem 'Hard Rock Hallelujah,' bringing horror-themed heavy metal to the continent's biggest stage. Led by the masked Mr. Lordi, the band has spent over two decades delivering Kiss-meets-GWAR theatrical hard rock and horror entertainment.
Lordowar is an epic power metal band from San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca, Argentina, whose name fuses Lord of the Rings and Manowar as a nod to their dual influences. They released the three-song EP Spartan Warriors in 2017 before completing their debut full-length The Legend Begins, with a live DVD recorded at Teatro Flores in Buenos Aires following the album's release. The lineup features Sergio Rodríguez on vocals, Darío Díaz and Néstor Ruiz on guitars, Diego Contreras on keyboards, Facundo Reinoso on bass, and José Rolón on drums.
Swiss melodic power/speed/heavy metal band from Rickenbach bei Wil, forging galloping riffs and soaring melodies since 2015. Their sound channels classic European power metal traditions through high-energy speed metal and traditional heavy metal frameworks.
Stoner/doom metal band from Charleroi, Belgium, laying down thick, fuzz-drenched riffs and slow-burning heaviness since 2012. Their approach to the genre favors crushing weight and hypnotic repetition in the tradition of classic European doom.
Madison's Lords of the Trident make theatrical, high-octane heavy and power metal with comic-book mythology and earnest commitment to hooks, anthems, and all things epic.
Spanish progressive gothic metal band from Barcelona, crafting intricate, darkly elegant compositions since 2017. Their approach merges gothic metal's atmospheric beauty with progressive structures and technical ambition.
Russian gothic/doom/death metal band from Chita in eastern Siberia, blending three dark traditions since 2014. Named after the legendary siren, their sound channels alluring darkness from one of Russia's most remote regions.
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