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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Brutal death metal and grindcore band from Sonta, Serbia, active since 2002, delivering over two decades of gore-soaked extremity from the Vojvodina flatlands. They are veterans of the Serbian grindcore scene.
Pathology is an American death metal band from San Diego, California, formed in 2006 by drummer Dave Astor, previously of Cattle Decapitation and The Locust. The band built a prolific catalog across labels including Victory Records — where Legacy of the Ancients (2010) and Awaken to the Suffering (2011) appeared — and released eleven studio albums through 2021, with The Everlasting Plague being their most recent. Their approach draws from brutal death metal traditions with recurring themes of medical horror and human mortality.
Progressive and thrash metal band from Trollhattan, Sweden, formed in 2015, delivering emotionally charged progressive thrash from the Falls city. They bring over a decade of passionate metal.
Berlin's Pharao has been commanding the stage with heavy and power metal grandeur since 2013, their ancient Egyptian namesake reflected in regal compositions. The German capital's international metal community provides an ideal platform for their majestic sonic ambitions.
Founded by Mantus and Triumphsword — veterans of the local black metal outfits Mysteriis and Thorns of Evil — Patria weaves South American ferocity with the cold, atmospheric currents of Scandinavian black metal. The band built a substantial catalog across the 2010s, with albums like "Sovereign Misanthropy" (2010) and "Individualism" (2014) drawing notice for Triumphsword's commanding vocals and an unflinching focus on misanthropy and anti-religious darkness.
Power and thrash metal band from Herenthout, Belgium, formed in 2014, delivering an energetic fusion of melodic power metal hooks and thrash metal aggression. They represent the heavier side of the Belgian metal scene.
Melodic death metal band from Ziar nad Hronom, Slovakia, formed in 2019, delivering melodic death metal from the central Slovak mining region. They bring Scandinavian-influenced melody to Slovak metal.
Patriarchs in Black is a New Jersey doom and sludge metal band formed in 2021 by guitarist Dan Lorenzo (Hades, Vessel of Light) and drummer Johnny Kelly (Type O Negative, A Pale Horse Named Death). Their debut album Reach for the Scars arrived in 2022, establishing a heavy, riff-centered sound indebted to classic doom and southern sludge, with subsequent releases including My Veneration and Visioning maintaining steady output. The band regularly features rotating guest vocalists and instrumentalists from across the heavy rock and metal worlds.
Patriarchy was a black metal project from Buenos Aires that operated briefly from 2019 until splitting up not long after, existing entirely within the shadows of Argentina's substantial but largely unsung black metal underground. Buenos Aires has produced a diverse range of black metal acts across the decades — from the raw, primitive hordes of the 1990s who absorbed the Scandinavian second wave almost in real time through underground tape trading, to more recent projects exploring atmospheric, ambient, and post-black metal territories. The name Patriarchy, deployed by a black metal band, sits in an interesting space: it could represent a straightforward adoption of dark thematic imagery common to the genre, an ironic or critical gesture toward social power structures, or simply a provocative moniker in the tradition of Argentine black metal bands who favor confrontational names. Black metal in Buenos Aires has historically operated through small dedicated zines, tape labels, and underground shows — a world largely invisible to the mainstream music press but fiercely self-sufficient. Patriarchy's brief existence and subsequent dissolution follows a familiar trajectory for underground black metal projects globally: intense but short-lived, leaving a limited trace in the public record beyond their Encyclopaedia Metallum entry and whatever recordings they produced during their active period. Their registration with an active Bandcamp URL suggests at least some material exists in digital form for those willing to seek it out.
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