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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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Budapest's Symmetry of the Void blend death and melodic death metal with a name that finds order in emptiness since 2016. Their philosophical approach yields compositions that balance structural precision with crushing weight.
Oklahoma City heavy and power metal band formed in 2025, blending traditional metal muscle with melodic power metal sensibilities on the emerging Oklahoma City scene.
Sludge metal band from Syracuse, New York, formed in 2020, dealing in slow, crushing riffs and abrasive dynamics characteristic of the post-Southern sludge tradition.
Symphonic black/death metal band from João Pessoa, Paraíba, formed in 2011 with a lineup including vocalist Adjair França, guitarists Felipe Headley and Luiz Eduardo Viana, keyboardist Magno Rocha, bassist André Toledo, and drummer Jorge Augusto. The band released their debut full-length, Philosophy of Symmetry, on April 21, 2015, produced, mixed, and mastered by Victor Hugo Targino.
Symphia craft symphonic metal from San Cristobal de La Laguna in Tenerife, layering orchestral grandeur over heavy compositions from the Canary Islands. Formed in 2020, they bring Atlantic island symphonic metal to the Spanish scene.
Brutal death metal band from Columbus, Ohio, formed in 2025, applying the goregrind-adjacent brutal death aesthetic — surgical terminology in name, relentless sonic violence in practice.
One-man black metal project from Anápolis, Goiás, operated solely by Emperor Diavolos. The project's debut release, The Path of Murk, was issued on August 1, 2013, and consists of six tracks including Acta Tenebris Vocare, Age of Darkness, and Damned to Eternal Abyss.
Symphonia brings atmospheric gothic metal with classical influences from the Champagne capital of Reims, active since 2018. Their music blends orchestral elegance with dark, brooding metal in a style that honors the gothic tradition's romantic sensibility.
Progressive metal band from Rio de Janeiro, founded in 1999 by Rodrigo and Tiago. The band released their debut album, Prologue to Infinity, in 2001 on the Rock Symphony label, with Renato Stefani on vocals and recorded at Guitar Paradise Studio in Rio de Janeiro.
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