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Featured Album
"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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Raw black metal band from Ufa, Russia, formed in 2015, delivering a decade of raw, unpolished black metal from the Bashkortostan capital. They bring primal extremity from the southern Urals.
Purulence was an all-female death metal and grindcore quartet from Botucatu, São Paulo, formed in 1992 by Alessandra (vocals), Simone (guitar), Cassia (vocals and drums), and Ludmilla (bass). The band released the split "Going the Putrid Reality" in 1995 alongside New York Against the Belzebu, and are documented as the first all-female grindcore band in Latin America.
Kingsport, Tennessee death metal act formed in 2024, representing the newer generation of Appalachian-region extreme metal with a straight-ahead, no-frills approach to the genre's foundational brutality.
Brutal death metal and goregrind turned black metal and grindcore band from Moscow, Russia, active since 2008, whose gloriously grotesque name matches their sonic evolution. Nearly two decades of extreme mutation from the Russian capital.
Manlleu's Pánico al Miedo — 'Panic at Fear' in Spanish — has been dealing death-thrash since 2018 from the Osona valley of central Catalonia. Their paradoxical name captures the genre's love of extremity, turning fear itself into something to be feared.
Hardcore turned heavy metal band from Skelleftea, Sweden, formed in 2017, evolving from hardcore roots into heavier metal territory. They bring metamorphic intensity from the Vasterbotten coast.
Folk metal band from Riga, Latvia, formed in 2021, whose Latvian name means 'swamp metal.' They weave Latvian folk traditions into their heavy metal sound, creating a distinctly Baltic folk metal identity.
Metalcore band from Lleida, Spain, formed in 2017, delivering heavy breakdowns and aggressive energy from the western Catalan capital. They bring modern metal intensity to the Spanish metalcore scene.
Bay Area extreme metal mainstay since 2005, blending death metal, crossover thrash, and grindcore into a chaotic, low-fidelity assault that draws on the Northern California underground's long tradition of genre-defying extremity.
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