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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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A South Carolina death-grind outfit formed in 2021, Psionic Madness attacks from both ends of the extreme spectrum — brutal death metal density colliding with grindcore's frantic pace and compacted song structures.
Black metal project from Madrid, Spain, formed in 2015, exploring psychic and cosmic themes through raw black metal. They bring science-fiction-tinged darkness to the Spanish black metal underground.
Out of Holden, Maine, Psonen forges blackened thrash metal with the cold, rural isolation of New England seeping into their sound — raw black metal menace fused with the driving aggression of classic thrash, active since 2019.
Chicago's Psoriasis have been pushing a no-frills death metal agenda since 2012, rooted in the gritty Midwestern underground ethos with suffocating riffs and a relentless, forward-driving attack.
Groove metal band from Karlskrona, Sweden, formed in 2023, delivering psychotic groove metal from the Blekinge naval city. They bring rhythmic heaviness to the southern Swedish coast.
Rotenburg's Project Thunderbolt fires on all cylinders with a heavy-groove-thrash hybrid since 2014. Their Lower Saxon base and electrifying name promise high-voltage metal that hits with the force their moniker demands.
Psychagogos is a Brazilian black metal project formed in 2014, signed to Darker than Black Records, with lyrical themes centered on paganism, philosophy, and fantasy. The band released a self-titled cassette demo in 2019, its only documented release to date, available through the Darker than Black catalogue.
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets are a Perth psychedelic rock band whose music turns heavy psych, garage energy, prog-flavored guitar lines, and dizzy melodic color into a hyperactive modern rock language. Formed in 2014, the group came out of Western Australia's fertile psych scene but quickly established a more riff-hungry and maximalist personality than many of their peers. Jack McEwan's vocals and guitar writing sit at the center, guiding songs that can feel sunburned, surreal, and tightly wound all at once. Albums such as High Visceral, Pt. 1, High Visceral, Pt. 2, And Now for the Whatchamacallit, SHYGA! The Sunlight Mound, Night Gnomes, and Fronzoli show a band fascinated by bright tones, odd turns, and riffs that spiral rather than simply repeat. They fit accepted scope through hard rock and metal-adjacent heavy psych, especially when the guitars thicken into stoner-friendly grooves. The music is playful but rarely lazy; underneath the cartoonish titles and saturated artwork are carefully arranged songs with restless momentum. Psychedelic Porn Crumpets matter because they make psychedelic rock feel athletic and loud, carrying the tradition forward without sanding off its weirdness.
Psychedelic doom metal band from Katrineholm, Sweden, formed in 2023, conjuring hallucinatory doom through ritual psychedelia. They bring occult visions to the Swedish doom scene.
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