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Proof (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
Death Atlas (2019)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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German progressive thrash metal band from Dusseldorf, blending technical complexity with thrash ferocity since 2008. Their long-running approach pushes thrash metal's boundaries through progressive structures and intricate arrangements.
Death metal band from Winterthur, Switzerland, delivering aggressive extremity since 2018. Their approach channels the genre's core elements of crushing heaviness, technical riffing, and guttural intensity.
Italian thrash metal band from Modena, delivering classic thrash aggression since 2018. Their name evokes the abandoned, searching quality beneath their thrash metal's fierce exterior.
Swedish symphonic power metal band from Bollstabruk, formed in 2022 and layering orchestral grandeur over triumphant power metal. Their name evokes the fading light of a new era dawning through majestic compositions.
Swedish symphonic/heavy metal band from Stockholm, formed in 2023 and blending orchestral textures with classic heavy metal. Their approach merges symphonic grandeur with the raw power of traditional metal.
Spanish gothic/melodic death metal band from Aranda de Duero, blending dark romanticism with aggressive extremity since 2009. Their approach merges gothic atmosphere with melodic death metal's harmonic intensity.
Lost Forever is a progressive/power metal band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, known for a vigorous and technically demanding approach that avoids genre clichés. The band released their debut full-length album "The End of Beginning" through Hellion Records in December 2003, establishing their presence in the Brazilian progressive metal scene. They have continued as an independent act, releasing music under the Artax banner.
Belgian black/death metal act from Sainte-Ode, active since 2009 with their 'Savage Souls' EP. Their sound merges black metal's atmospheric hostility with death metal's visceral assault.
German black metal project formed in 2019, channeling raw hostility and atmospheric darkness. Their sound embraces black metal's primal aggression with an emphasis on atmosphere and intensity.
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