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Featured Album
"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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Symphonic melodic death and black metal band from Lothra and Saalfeld, Germany, formed in 2010, weaving orchestral arrangements through their extreme metal foundation. They create epic, cinematic metal that bridges the worlds of melody and aggression.
Melodic death metal and metalcore band from Germany, formed in 2024, channeling wrath through the combination of melodic death metal precision and metalcore intensity. Their name, evoking a path of anger, signals the emotional force behind their music.
Depressive black metal project from Bisceglie, Italy, formed in 2017, channeling emotional despair through bleak, sorrowful black metal from the Adriatic coast of Puglia. Their straightforward name captures the desolate path of their music.
Melodic death metal band from Halle, Germany, formed in 2024, bringing Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal to the former East German metal underground. They are part of a new generation of German melodic death metal.
Würzburg's Phantom Winter deals in the heaviest end of the sludge spectrum since 2015, crafting monolithic compositions that move with tectonic force. Their Franconian winelands setting provides an ironic contrast to their suffocatingly dense sonic output.
Bern's Pale Black has been straddling the line between death metal's brutality and deathcore's rhythmic punch since 2013. Their Swiss capital base provides access to a rich network of venues and festivals that has helped hone their aggressive, breakdown-heavy approach.
Slam and brutal death metal band from London, England, formed in 2021, dealing in disease-themed sonic extremity. Their medical nomenclature suits the infectious brutality of their slam death metal.
A fixture of the Belo Horizonte extreme metal underground, Pathologic Noise deal in gore-soaked brutal death metal with a relentless low-end attack and guttural vocal savagery. Their debut full-length "Sodomy and Delight on Flesh" (2003) on Cogumelo Records established their punishing formula, which they sharpened further on "Gore Aberration" (2014).
Slam and brutal death metal band from London, England, formed in 2012, delivering over a decade of grotesque, crushing slam from the British capital. They are a veteran act in the London brutal death metal community.
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