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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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Houston thrash metal band formed in 2005, operating in the city's historically fertile extreme metal underground with the straightforward speed and aggression that defines the Texas approach to the genre.
Meriden, Connecticut thrash metal band from 2005, part of the scrappy New England underground metal scene that has quietly produced some of the region's most uncompromising aggressive acts.
Puscifer is Maynard James Keenan's Arizona-rooted art-rock project, developed as a deliberately flexible outlet apart from Tool and A Perfect Circle. Rather than functioning like a conventional rock band, Puscifer works as a rotating creative laboratory centered on Keenan, Mat Mitchell, Carina Round, and a changing network of collaborators. V Is for Vagina introduced a sly, electronic, desert-dust version of industrial-tinged rock, while Conditions of My Parole, Money Shot, Existential Reckoning, and later releases refined the balance between groove, atmosphere, satire, and emotional unease. The music often moves at a controlled simmer: bass lines pulse, electronics flicker, guitars appear as texture or threat, and the vocals trade between Keenan's dry menace and Round's melodic gravity. Puscifer belongs in a heavy-adjacent directory because its darkness, industrial influence, and alternative-rock weight sit near metal culture even when the arrangements avoid traditional riff dominance. The project's history is also inseparable from performance art, video, and character work, but the songs endure because beneath the absurd framing sits patient, moody, carefully engineered rock architecture.
Death metal and grindcore band from Tours, France, active since 1993, making them one of the longest-running extreme metal acts in the Loire Valley. Over three decades of grinding extremity mark them as true veterans.
Grinding Sludge Metal / Hardcore from Austin.
Portland, Oregon black/death/grind outfit formed in 2019, drawing on the Pacific Northwest's thriving extreme underground to deliver short, vicious assaults that refuse to settle neatly into any one extreme subgenre.
Death metal band from Limoges, France, formed in 2021, bringing provocatively named death metal to the Haute-Vienne department. Their irreverent attitude matches the aggression of their sound.
Brighton all-girl punk quintet Pussyliquor channel pure uncensored female rage through a Bikini Kill and Bratmobile-inspired riot grrrl lens, delivering short, sharp blasts of feminist punk fury. Vocalist Ari leads a five-piece lineup that met while studying music performance, and their unapologetically confrontational approach to discussing female taboos has earned them a growing following in the UK punk underground. Their raw, lo-fi energy and uncompromising attitude carry the torch for a new generation of riot grrrl.
Atmospheric black metal band from Masovia, Poland, formed in 2024, whose name means 'empty night' in Polish. They craft desolate atmospheric black metal reflecting the void of their nocturnal name.
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