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Featured Album
"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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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Power and thrash metal band from Slatina, Croatia, formed in 2003, named after the Pannonian cultural syndrome. They bring over two decades of energetic power-thrash to the Croatian metal scene.
Death metal band from Nizhny Tagil, Russia, formed in 2015, delivering surveillance-themed death metal from the Ural industrial city. They bring over a decade of crushing metal to the Russian underground.
Hranice-based Panoptiko has been blending Czech folk traditions with heavy metal and hard rock since 2008. Their use of regional musical motifs alongside crunchy riffs reflects the Moravian border region's rich cultural heritage filtered through a metal lens.
Death metal band from Nijmegen, Netherlands, formed in 2012, named after Jeremy Bentham's surveillance architecture concept. They deliver watchful, all-seeing death metal from the oldest city in the Netherlands.
Cincinnati's Panoptitron fold jazz fusion logic into progressive death metal, producing music that is simultaneously disorienting and brutally heavy. Since 2014, they've been one of Ohio's most genuinely experimental extreme metal acts, bending genre boundaries without losing the thread of aggression.
Black metal band from Vastra Gotaland, Sweden, formed in 2016, whose Greek name means 'all-devouring.' They bring consuming black metal fury from western Sweden.
Black metal project from Finland, formed in 2018, whose name suggests universal sleep or death. They craft hypnotic, trance-like black metal that draws listeners into darkness.
Progressive metal band from Seinajoki, Finland, formed in 2016, whose Finnish name means 'battleship.' They navigate complex progressive metal waters with the force their nautical name implies.
Death metal band from Akaa and Valkeakoski, Finland, formed in 2020, whose name translates to 'armored destruction.' They deliver tank-like, crushing death metal from southern Finland.
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