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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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Black and thrash metal band from Italy, formed in 2024, bringing militaristic blackened thrash to the Italian underground. Their armored name signals the tank-like force of their assault.
Symphonic black metal band from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2010, combining orchestral grandeur with black metal ferocity and armored aggression. Over fifteen years of symphonic darkness from the Russian capital.
Black metal band from the West Midlands, England, formed in 2016, whose name references the World War II rocket launcher. They bring militaristic black metal intensity to central England.
A 2023 death metal project from the Gladbeck district of Zweckel, Panzram takes its name from one of America's most notorious criminals. Their Ruhr Valley origins — Germany's industrial heartland — provide a fitting backdrop for their grim, unrelenting sonic violence.
Experimental black metal, drone, and noise band from Vasteras, Sweden, active since 2008, pushing extreme music into abrasive noise territory. Over seventeen years of experimental extremity from the Malaren Valley.
Old-school death metal outfit drawing from the grime of Autopsy, the riff vocabulary of Death, and the brutality of Obituary, Papa Necrose deal in themes of religious hypocrisy, human contradiction, and corporeal decay. Their output includes the split Culto a Morte (2016), the album Open Infected Body (2021), and Anthropomorphy Execution (2026), released through Awakening Records.
Vacaville, California's Papa Roach shot to stardom with 2000's 'Infest,' whose lead single 'Last Resort' became one of the defining songs of the nu-metal era with its unflinching lyrics about suicide and desperation. Jacoby Shaddix's raw, confessional vocal style and the band's willingness to evolve through punk, electronic, and pop-rock phases have kept them commercially relevant for over two decades. With multiple platinum certifications and consistent arena-level touring, Papa Roach have far outlasted the nu-metal movement they helped popularize.
Virginia Beach's Paper Trail have been thrashing since 2015, bringing old-school speed and precision to a city better known for Navy bases than metal scenes. Their sound is rooted in the Bay Area tradition but carries a coastal East Coast edge.
Edinboro, Pennsylvania's Papercut Homicide have been subjecting audiences to technical death metal and grindcore in equal measure since 2002, making them one of the more seasoned and abrasive acts in the state's underground. The sheer sonic violence of their hybrid is matched only by the precision with which they execute it.
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