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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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Springfield, Massachusetts crossover thrash band formed in 2011, playing fast and aggressive music at the intersection of thrash metal and hardcore punk, following in the tradition of East Coast crossover acts.
Nashua, New Hampshire death metal and hardcore band formed in 2024, channeling the short, aggressive intensity of deathcore and death-inflected hardcore punk into a raw and uncompromising sound.
Swampworm practice black metal from Munich, burrowing through dark compositions from the Bavarian capital. Formed in 2022, they bring invertebrate malevolence to the southern German underground.
Swansong deliver melodic death metal from the eastern Finnish city of Kuopio, combining the Scandinavian melodeath tradition with the finality their name suggests. Active since 2015, they bring Savo-region melody to the Finnish extreme scene.
Death/doom metal band from São Paulo, formed in 1996 as a side project by André Pinheiro (guitars and vocals) and Felipe Zagreus (drums and vocals), both members of the black metal band Nocternity. The band recorded and released one demo-tape, Voyeur, in June 1997 at Mr. Som Studio in São Paulo — a four-track release featuring the songs Escapism, Aurora, Voyeur, and Epilogue — and split up without recording any further material.
Swarga practice black metal from an undisclosed Polish location since 2014. Named for the Slavic heavenly realm, their pagan-paradise name channels pre-Christian afterlife mythology into atmospheric compositions.
Swarm blend progressive and technical death metal with deathcore elements from Ceske Budejovice, creating a sophisticated yet punishing sound. Their South Bohemian base proves that technical extremity thrives beyond the major Czech metal hubs.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania sludge metal and hardcore band formed in 2011, channeling the dense, riff-heavy aggression of sludge alongside the blunt intensity of East Coast hardcore into a punishing and emotionally raw sound.
Boston, Massachusetts death and thrash metal band formed in 2011, combining the technical precision and brutality of death metal with the relentless velocity of thrash in the tradition of the New England extreme metal underground.
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