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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)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/07 @ Gramercy Theatre, New York
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Speed and heavy metal band with psychedelic rock influences from the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic, formed in 2023. They blend the velocity of speed metal with the expansive, mind-bending qualities of psychedelic rock.
Atmospheric black metal band from Timisoara, Romania, formed in 2013, crafting expansive atmospheric black metal from the Banat region. Over a decade of immersive compositions mark their dedication.
Black metal project from France, formed in 2022, whose name means 'pale cold' in French. They channel icy atmosphere and desolation through raw black metal.
Rochester, New York's Pâro work in the emotionally resonant space between progressive doom and post-metal, building slow-unfolding compositions that balance melodic introspection with immense heaviness, drawing on upstate New York's understated but consistently vital underground since 2019.
Stoner and doom metal band from Braga, Portugal, formed in 2016, delivering heavy, riff-driven stoner doom from the Minho region. They bring crushing grooves to the northwestern Portuguese underground.
Black metal band from Chartres, France, formed in 2016, whose name translates to 'dreamlike penance.' They craft atmospheric, trance-like black metal from the cathedral city of Chartres.
Formed in Americana in 2017, Póstuma deals in Swedish-influenced melodic death metal built around the powerful clean and harsh vocal interplay of singer Bia da Aldea and the twin-guitar work of Rodrigo Batista and Júlio Alves. Their 2020 debut EP "Moralis" draws thematically on Greek mythology and philosophy, channeling the spirit of early In Flames and At the Gates into four tightly constructed tracks that balance aggressiveness with melody.
A recently formed São Paulo outfit fusing raw black metal with crust punk, Pöstvmö operates from an openly antifascist political stance and has deliberately built a racially and gender-diverse lineup in a scene that has historically lacked both. The band connects the underground extreme metal world with vegan and straight-edge communities, bringing a confrontational DIY ethos to their bleak, abrasive sound.
Omaha, Nebraska's Púca blend raw black metal with punk aggression and ambient texture, taking the mythological Irish spirit of mischief and chaos as their touchstone and translating it into unpredictable, boundary-crossing underground metal since forming in 2022.
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