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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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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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Progressive metal band from Resita, Romania, formed in 2024, whose Greek name means 'everything flows.' They bring newly forged progressive metal to the Banat region of western Romania.
Pantano are a stoner metal band from Valparaíso, Chile, operating as an independent act without label backing. The band's thematic focus spans personal struggles and everyday life in the port city, delivered through the heavy, fuzz-saturated guitar work characteristic of the regional stoner rock underground.
A trio of A. Stresser (guitars/synths), B. Silvério (drums), and F. Gusso (bass/vocals), Pantanum deal in fuzzed-out, psychedelic stoner doom built on heavy improvisation and thick riffage. Their catalog spans from the live-recorded Volume I (2015) through the garage-toned Purple Blaze (2017) and the full-lengths Geographic Animals (2019) and Innerspirit (2020).
Founding fathers of extreme metal in the Rio Grande Valley. Death/black metal since 1988.
Panteon are a melodic death/black metal band from San Salvador de Jujuy in northwestern Argentina, one of the few metal acts operating in that region. Metal Archives documents two albums under their name — a self-titled release and Septum — and the band has been active across multiple periods since the late 1990s, signed at various points to Total Desaster Productions.
Třinec's Panter has been delivering straightforward Czech heavy metal since 2010, named with the same predatory intent as their Silesian steel-town origins suggest. Their blue-collar approach to classic metal resonates with the industrial character of their northeastern corner of the country.
Groove metal pioneers from Arlington. One of the biggest metal bands in history, led by Dimebag Darrell and Phil Anselmo.
Hamburg's Pantheion enters the symphonic black metal arena in 2026, channeling orchestral grandeur through the darkness of Germany's second-largest city. Their port-city origins connect them to a rich tradition of extreme metal emerging from the Hanseatic metropolis.
Long Beach's Pantheon forge black and death metal into a single violent hybrid, channeling the dense, abrasive energy of the Southern California underground since 2011. Their sound sits at the dark intersection where melodic hostility meets outright savagery.
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