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Featured Album
Divine (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/07 @ Gramercy Theatre, New York
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Black metal and hardcore band from Paris, France, formed in 2016, merging the darkness of black metal with hardcore's confrontational energy. They create a potent crossover from the French capital.
Houston sludge/post-metal blending doom with 90s slowcore and noise rock.
El Paso's Pyretic tear through a caustic blend of death metal and grindcore, combining ferocious blasting tempos with riff-first brutality that reflects the raw, uncompromising spirit of the Southwest underground since their 2017 formation.
Minneapolis's Pyreworks carve a path through melodic death and thrash metal, bringing Scandinavian melodic precision to a Midwestern thrash backbone, with tightly executed riffs and a forward-driving intensity that defines their sound since 2019.
Long Island's Pyrexia are veterans of the brutal death metal underground dating back to 1993, known for their suffocating low-end density and punishing groove that helped define the New York brutal death sound, with their catalog spanning early extremity to mid-period death-groove experiments.
Slam and brutal death metal band from the Netherlands, formed in 2015, delivering feverishly heavy slam death metal. Their name evokes the internal collapse that matches their crushing sound.
A raw black metal project out of Pittsfield, New Hampshire, Pyrgosia emerged in 2023 with a grim and isolated character fitting the rural New England wilderness, channeling traditional black metal harshness with little concession to modernity.
Heavy metal and hard rock band from Bijacovce, Slovakia, formed in 2015, named after the iron sulfide mineral known as fool's gold. Over a decade of gleaming metal from the Spiš region.
Pittsburgh's Pyrithe work in the corrosive overlap of experimental sludge, post-metal, and noise rock, building structures that are architecturally dense and abrasive, reflecting the industrial weight of their city while pushing well past genre comfort zones since 2018.
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