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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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From the tiny South Bohemian village of Nová Cerekev, Psychowar has been conjuring black metal darkness since 2015. Their rural isolation feeds a sound rooted in misanthropy and the cold emptiness of the Czech-Moravian Highlands.
Straddling the Bavarian-Hessian border from the Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg corridor, Provocation has been dealing brutal death metal since 2019. Their Main River valley setting provides an unexpected home for some of the region's most punishing sonic output.
Black metal band from Russia, formed in 2017, whose French name means 'abandoned psyche.' They explore themes of psychological desolation through atmospheric black metal.
Industrial thrash metal band from the Netherlands, formed in 2020, fusing mechanical industrial rhythms with thrash metal velocity. They bring a one-eyed, focused intensity to their hybrid approach.
Salem, Ohio's Psyclosarin formed in 2019 playing a grinding hybrid of groove and death metal — the combination of rhythmic heaviness and technical death metal aggression gives them a distinct character within Ohio's active and underrated heavy underground.
Vermillion, Ohio's Psycopath have been playing straightforward thrash metal since 2018, delivering the genre's trademark aggression and speed from a small-town Ohio setting that keeps their approach stripped down, road-tested, and unpretentious.
Psycophobia is an independent death/black metal band from Novo Hamburgo, Rio Grande do Sul, with releases documented on Metal Archives including "Reality of a Psychotic Underworld" and "Devilish Kiss of Death." The band also appeared on the compilation "Satan Smashes Fascism" (2018) with the track "March of Destruction" and on "The Sound of Satanic Hellbangers Vol. II" (Satanic Hellbangers Records, November 2022) with "Welcome Infernal Land."
Psycroptic are an Australian technical death metal band formed in Hobart, Tasmania in 1999, built around the Haley brothers — guitarist Joe and drummer Dave — whose rhythmic interplay is central to the band's identity. Beginning with The Isle of Disenchantment in 2000 and signing to Nuclear Blast in 2008, the band became one of the most internationally recognized acts in the Australian extreme metal scene through relentless touring and a string of technically demanding albums.
Leipzig's Psycrotted delivers death-thrash with the intensity befitting one of eastern Germany's most culturally vibrant cities. Their Saxon base connects them to a growing scene that has emerged from the shadow of reunification with renewed creative energy.
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