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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
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Thrash/heavy metal band from Chapecó, Santa Catarina, Brazil, formed in July 2014 by members from several local acts including Spharion and Eternal Cry; the name is the bassist Protásio Vargas's surname spelled backwards. The band released the EPs The Lynching (2015), themed around the 1950 burning of Chapecó's central church and mob killing, and Masked People (2017), before recording their debut full-length Kingdom of Chaos in January 2019 with vocalist Luciano Bravo, guitarist Guilherme Luan, and drummer Roberto Rodrigues.
Istanbul's Sagu practice black metal from the Bosphorus metropolis since 2016. Their enigmatic name and origins in the city straddling two continents channel transcontinental darkness into atmospheric compositions.
Black metal band from Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, active since 2015. Their output represents one of the notable extreme metal voices from the Republika Srpska, channeling raw black metal intensity through Balkan sensibilities.
Nashville's Saidan — a city better known for country than black metal — have been carving out their own frozen niche since 2020, bringing a sense of Southern isolation to a genre built on Scandinavian desolation. Their black metal finds unexpected common ground between the bleakness of Appalachian remoteness and the cold fury of the second wave.
Saikon deal in death metal from Marseille, channeling extreme aggression from the Mediterranean port. Active since 2015, they bring Provencal brutality to the French death metal scene.
Belgian symphonic black metal band from Ghent with five full-length albums spanning 2011 to 2021, featuring members from the Netherlands, Spain, and France in a truly international lineup. Their epic sound blends sweeping orchestral black metal with death metal intensity across releases like "Gnosis" (2017) and the aptly titled "V" (2021).
Gothenburg's Sailor Hunter deliver metalcore from Sweden's second city since 2022. Their nautical-predator name channels the pursuit of seafarers into breakdown-driven compositions from the city that defined melodic death metal.
Saint Agnes are a London rock band led by Kitty Austen and Jonathan Tufnell, evolving from fuzz-heavy occult rock beginnings into a darker industrial, goth, and alternative rock sound. Their early material leaned on garage-blues swagger, heavy riffs, vintage tones, and theatrical menace, with releases such as The Death or Glory Gang and Welcome to Silvertown establishing a confrontational, high-energy identity. Over time, the band pushed further into electronic weight, club-like pulses, and sharper industrial textures, while keeping guitars and aggressive vocal drama at the center. Songs such as "Repent," "Vampire," "Uppercut!," "The Father, The Son and The Holy Beast," and "Good Boy" show a group interested in spectacle, impact, and self-directed mythology. Saint Agnes' music is built for sweat, volume, and visual intensity, but it also carries a strong songwriting instinct, using big hooks and carefully arranged dynamics to keep the theatrical darkness from becoming purely atmospheric.
Saint Astray play melodic gothic metal from Nuremberg, weaving dark romantic themes through accessible, hook-driven compositions. Their Franconian base connects them to a Bavarian metal scene that spans from traditional to gothic extremes.
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