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Proof (2024)
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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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Melodic doom/death metal act from the Adriatic city of Zadar formed in 2022, weaving sorrowful melodies through crushing heaviness. Their mournful sound channels the emotional weight of doom metal's most melancholic expressions.
Washington State's Narrow Grave has been sharpening its thrash metal edge since 2014, drawing on the Pacific Northwest's harder, less-celebrated underground. Tight riffing and a hostile urgency define their approach.
Houston shoegaze/heavy alternative with massive guitar tones. Grunge-soaked heaviness.
Kyiv funeral/atmospheric doom metal act formed in 2012, crafting immersive, glacially-paced compositions that channel crushing heaviness through patient, monolithic structures. Their approach to the slowest and heaviest corner of doom metal demands devoted, contemplative listening.
Narrowminded is a brutal death metal band from Pleven, Bulgaria, active since 2016. The band brings punishing, no-holds-barred death metal brutality to the Bulgarian extreme music scene.
Narsil is a pagan metal band from the Muhldorf am Inn and Altotting area of Upper Bavaria, active since 2010. Named after the legendary sword of Tolkien's Numenorean kings, the band channels pagan themes through heavy metal from the Inn River valley.
Nartheling is an atmospheric black metal project from Yakutsk, Russia, formed in 2024. They emerge from the coldest major city on Earth, where winter temperatures plummet to minus fifty degrees.
Elizabethtown, Kentucky's Narthex takes its name from church architecture and fills that sacred space with corrosive black metal since 2012. There's a theological tension in the project — reverence and blasphemy occupying the same room.
Narthraal is a death metal band from Hafnarfjörður, Iceland, active since 2014. They bring Icelandic death metal from this coastal town just south of Reykjavík.
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