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Featured Album
"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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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Progressive metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2012, crafting psychologically complex progressive metal compositions. Their name blends psyche and schema, reflecting the cerebral nature of their music.
Progressive and heavy metal band from Kuopio, Finland, formed in 2017, exploring the erosion of the mind through elaborate progressive metal. They bring experimental ambition to the Savo region's metal scene.
Heavy and power metal band from Jyvaskyla, Finland, formed in 2018, delivering powerful melodic metal from central Finland. They combine heavy metal muscle with power metal grandeur.
A very recent entry from Silver Spring, Maryland, Psychiatric Collapse formed in 2024 and plays a brutal hybrid of death metal and grindcore — short, furious, and clinically violent in its execution.
Brutal Death Metal, Goregrind from Dallas.
Thrash metal band with hardcore influences from Lodz, Poland, formed in 2025, diagnosing society's ills through aggressive thrash from Poland's third-largest city. They bring clinical intensity to the Lodz underground.
Thrash and death metal band from Timisoara, Romania, formed in 2024, diagnosing society through aggressive death-thrash from the Banat capital. They bring clinical intensity to the western Romanian metal scene.
Brutal death metal and grindcore band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, formed in 2013, delivering over a decade of psychically deranged extremity from the northern capital. They bring mind-bending brutality to the Petersburg scene.
Fort Myers, Florida's Psychic Dose traffics in psychedelic stoner-doom — slow, narcotic riffing saturated in fuzz and reverb, evoking sun-scorched Southern haze with a heavy, lysergic weight that builds across their songs.
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