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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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Tucson, Arizona black and death metal band formed in 2015, fusing the savage extremity of both genres into a dark and violent sound shaped by the arid, unforgiving environment of the Sonoran Desert underground.
Baltimore, Maryland sludge, thrash, and hardcore outfit formed in 2001, known for dense, churning arrangements that blend the caustic brutality of sludge metal with thrash-derived aggression and hardcore intensity, placing them among the most distinctive acts in the mid-Atlantic underground.
Swarmageddon delivers melodic death metal from Besancon in the Jura mountains, active since 2017. Their portmanteau name fuses 'swarm' with 'armageddon,' and their compositions match that apocalyptic imagery with sweeping melodic guitar harmonies.
Swarmcatcher is a doom and sludge metal band from Grafton, Massachusetts, formed in 2022, dealing in slow, crushing riffs and oppressive heaviness rooted in the New England underground.
Salt Lake City's Swarmer blends post-metal, sludge, and stoner metal into expansive, riff-heavy soundscapes, drawing on the high desert's isolation for their dense, layered approach since forming in 2018.
Swarmlord is a black metal act from El Paso, Texas, active since 2013, channeling raw aggression and cold atmosphere from the border region's harsh landscape.
Swarn deal in death metal from Tartu, channeling extreme aggression from Estonia's second city. Formed in 2019, they bring fresh brutality to the Baltic death metal underground.
Lesser Poland's Swarost practice black metal from the southern Polish region since 2010. Their Slavic-deity-derived name channels the ancient god of fire and ironworking into compositions shaped by Lesser Poland's heritage.
Swart Impaler channel black/death metal from Koblenz, delivering the piercing brutality their name promises from the Rhine-Moselle confluence. Emerging in 2025, they bring fresh impaling intensity to the Rhineland-Palatinate extreme scene.
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