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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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Thrash metal band from Bucharest, Romania, formed in 2021, detonating explosive thrash metal from the Romanian capital. They bring high-energy thrash to Bucharest's growing metal community.
Progressive metal band from Leksand, Sweden, formed in 2022, delivering incendiary progressive metal from the Dalarna region. They bring fiery ambition to the Swedish progressive metal scene.
Brooklyn's Pyrolatrous channel the blackened melodic death metal tradition into a modern, technically precise form, threading scorched atmosphere and lead-driven melody through aggressive riffwork that draws on both Scandinavian melodeath and raw black metal since 2016.
Lexington, Kentucky's Pyromancer deal in the murky crossfire of black and death metal, conjuring sulfurous, cavernous extremity from the heart of the South with a sound that is as filthy in production as it is unrelenting in attack since 2015.
České Budějovice's Pyromann fuses groove metal's rhythmic punch with metalcore's dynamic shifts, active since 2021. Their South Bohemian base provides a platform in one of the Czech Republic's more active regional metal scenes.
Technical melodic death metal band from Rzeszow, Poland, active since 2011, ironically named after the fear of fire while delivering incendiary technical death metal. Over a decade of activity marks their technical dedication.
Pyrophoric was a black/thrash metal band from Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico, formed in 2009 and active until 2011. The band released two demos before splitting up, and later self-released an unreleased full-length recording as the digital album "Visions from the Abyss" in 2014.
Heavy metal band from Ljubljana, Slovenia, formed in 2017, named after the silicate mineral group. They bring mineral-hard heavy metal from the Slovenian capital.
A 2025 German black metal project, Pyrphoros — Greek for 'fire-bearer' — channels Promethean themes through tremolo-driven compositions. Their classical name suggests an intellectual underpinning to their raw sonic aggression.
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