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Divine (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/07 @ Gramercy Theatre, New York
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Black metal band from Pancevo, Serbia, formed in 2018, channeling pagan and diabolical themes through raw black metal from the Vojvodina region. They bring blasphemous darkness to the Serbian underground.
Bad Tölz's Pagemaster has been weaving intricate progressive metal since 2017, drawing from the Bavarian alpine town's dramatic landscapes. Their compositions favor elaborate arrangements and dynamic shifts over brute force, placing them in the cerebral wing of German metal.
Los Angeles newcomers Pagoto smash crossover thrash and sludge together into a filthy, high-energy hybrid that owes as much to hardcore warehouses as it does to metal stages. Formed in 2024, they bring the reckless aggression of the LA underground to both styles at once.
Bulgarian black metal act formed in 2018, operating as a bass-and-drums duo delivering stripped-down, aggressive black metal. They have released several recordings including splits with other underground acts.
Death and thrash metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2015, whose Finnish name translates to 'icon of evil.' They deliver ferocious extreme metal from the Finnish capital.
Trier-based Paid Charons Fare has been navigating the bleak waters between death and funeral doom metal since 2014. Named for the mythological toll of crossing into the underworld, their sound matches that morbid imagery with crushing, glacially-paced compositions from Germany's oldest city.
Named after the Goetic demon of forbidden knowledge, Paimon conjures occult black metal from the Saxon town of Thalheim since 2020. Their sound draws from the ritualistic end of the genre, favoring atmosphere and dread over sheer velocity.
Black and death metal band from Novi Sad, Serbia, formed in 2013, named after the demonic entity. They deliver over a decade of blackened death metal from the Serbian cultural capital.
Flint, Michigan's Pain forge thrash metal shaped by the industrial rust and relentless edge of one of America's hardest-hit cities. Since 2020 they've been delivering fast, aggressive metal that sounds like it has something to prove.
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