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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/07 @ Gramercy Theatre, New York
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A funeral doom metal project hailing from North Dakota, Pythonissam emerged in 2021 with the genre's characteristic geological patience, stretching grief and desolation across enormous sonic expanses in a state where isolation and emptiness translate naturally into the form.
Floral Park, New York's Pytt are a death metal act formed in 2023, bringing the underground aggression of the greater New York metropolitan area to bear through a sound rooted in the genre's foundational brutality and uncompromising intensity.
Technical death metal band from Turku, Finland, formed in 2011, delivering technically intricate death metal from Finland's former capital. Their medical-term name suits the clinical precision of their compositions.
Industrial black metal band from Stavanger, Norway, formed in 2013, merging cold industrial textures with black metal from the southwest Norwegian coast. They bring mechanical darkness to the Rogaland scene.
Death and thrash metal band from Chornomorsk, Ukraine, formed in 2012, delivering over a decade of death-thrash from the Black Sea port city near Odesa. They bring maritime extremity to the Ukrainian coast.
San Francisco's Pyxis have been operating in the Bay Area black metal underground since 2012, crafting cold and atmospheric material that draws on the region's distinctive strain of introspective, often dissonant black metal with a distinctly West Coast character.
Black and pagan metal band from Russia, formed in 2025, bringing heathen fury through freshly forged black metal. They represent the newest wave of Russian pagan metal.
Death and thrash metal band from Manlleu, Spain, formed in 2018, whose Spanish name means 'panic from fear.' They channel that terror into aggressive death-thrash from the Catalan interior.
Avant-garde and black metal band from Salerno, Italy, formed in 2017, whose name references the entry song of the chorus in ancient Greek drama. They bring theatrical, experimental black metal to the Campanian coast.
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