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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
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Ukrainian black metal and punk project formed in 2022, fusing extreme metal intensity with punk's raw directness and political urgency. Their hybrid approach channels the confrontational energy of both traditions.
Belgian beatdown hardcore outfit Nasty have been unleashing short bursts of vitriolic fury since forming in Kelmis in 2004, earning a reputation as one of Europe's most ferocious live acts. Their brand of metallic hardcore is built on bone-crushing breakdowns, pissed-off vocals, and an unrelenting aggression that has taken them across Europe, Asia, and South America. Signing to Century Media for 'Menace' marked a new chapter for a band that had already spent over a decade terrorizing stages worldwide.
Seattle's Nasty Bits play heavy metal with the city's characteristic grit and no-nonsense edge, active since 2018. Their hard rock-inflected approach sits comfortably in the tradition of bands that value punch over pretension.
Nasty Face is a goregrind band from Basel, Switzerland, active since 2017. The project delivers splattery, lo-fi goregrind extremity from the cultural capital of northwestern Switzerland.
Formed in Rio Grande in 2018 by vocalist Miro Cheyenne and guitarist Maikão, Nasty n' Loaded play a hard-driving blend of classic heavy metal, hard rock, and punk that draws from both the NWOBHM tradition and the rawer end of the hard rock spectrum. Their 2025 album Day Is Gone, featuring a five-piece lineup, stretches across twelve tracks including "Flesh and Bone" and the closing "Angel of Fire".
Brandon, Florida's Nasty Savage are one of the unsung survivors of the American metal underground, plying power-speed-thrash since 1985 with an eccentric theatricality that's always set them apart. Four decades in, the band still commands a rabid cult following.
Nasty Surgeons is a death metal and grindcore band from Burgos in Castile and Leon, active since 2017. The band performs surgical death metal with clinical precision from the medieval Gothic cathedral city.
Seminal Örebro grindcore act active 1992-2004, whose four albums from 'Inhale/Exhale' to 'Shift' on Relapse and Burning Heart Records defined Swedish grindcore for a generation. The band ended tragically when frontman Mieszko Talarczyk was killed in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, though they briefly reunited in 2012 with Rotten Sound's Keijo Niinimaa for a 20th anniversary tour.
California's Natalie Portman Nip Slip lean hard into brutal death metal and goregrind provocation, arriving in 2025 with a name designed to shock and music designed to cave in skulls. Irreverent, abrasive, and unapologetically extreme.
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