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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 and melodic doom and death metal band from Patreksfjordur, Iceland, formed in 2022, crafting ambitious compositions from one of the most remote towns in the Westfjords. Their isolated location infuses their music with a unique desolation.
Thrash metal band from Ljubljana, Slovenia, formed in 2014, delivering over a decade of thrash metal from the Slovenian capital. They are dedicated practitioners of the thrash metal craft.
Progressive black metal band from Belfast, Northern Ireland, formed in 2013, crafting ambitious progressive black metal from the Irish underground. They bring cerebral complexity to Northern Irish extreme metal.
Patti Smith became one of the defining figures of New York punk by joining poetry, garage rock, improvisation, and spiritual intensity into a form that still feels unstable. After early readings and collaborations with guitarist Lenny Kaye, the Patti Smith Group turned that language into a band identity, with Horses in 1975 standing as a foundational art-punk record. "Gloria," "Land," "Redondo Beach," and later songs such as "Because the Night," "Dancing Barefoot," "People Have the Power," and "Pissing in a River" show how Smith could move between incantation, rock anthem, and intimate confession without losing command. Her work is not heavy in a metal sense, but it belongs in punk scope because it helped define the conditions from which punk rock, post-punk, and alternative rock grew. Smith's voice often sounds like it is pushing language past song form, while the band gives that push a physical frame. Her importance is historical and musical at once. Patti Smith made rock feel literary without making it delicate, and made punk feel visionary without removing its street-level urgency.
British heavy metal vocalist from London, legendary as the original frontman of Iron Maiden who sang on their iconic debut album and Killers. His raw, punk-influenced vocal style helped define the sound of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.
Symphonic metal artist from Porto, Portugal, formed in 2023, delivering orchestrally enhanced metal from the northern Portuguese metropolis. They bring cinematic grandeur to the Porto metal community.
Heavy metal and hard rock artist from Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal, formed in 2016, delivering classic heavy metal from the Porto metropolitan area. They bring traditional metal craftsmanship to the Portuguese scene.
One of the longer-running voices in the São Paulo hardcore and metalcore scene, Paura emerged in 1995 from members of No-Violence and Garage Fuzz, fusing the DIY ethics of hardcore with heavy metal weight and politically charged lyrics around vegan straight edge and anti-homophobia themes. Their output spans from the 2014 album "Tameless" through to "Karmic Punishment" (2023), maintaining a raw urgency across nearly three decades of activity.
Progressive metal solo artist from Moscow, Russia, active since 2015, delivering technically accomplished progressive metal compositions. They bring individual creative vision to the Russian progressive metal scene.
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