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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
06/09 @ Warehouse SWG3, Glasgow
Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Virago is a thrash metal band from Helsinki, Finland, active since 2011. They deliver fast, aggressive thrash metal from the Finnish capital's vibrant metal scene.
One of the bands that helped put Houston on the brutal death metal map in the late 90s. Spawned Shawn Whitaker's solo project Insidious Decrepancy. Reunited in 2022 after a decade-long hiatus.
Viral Strain is a heavy metal band from Manchester, England, formed in 2017. They play aggressive heavy metal from the English north.
Camliyayla's Viranesir operates as one of Turkey's most controversial and prolific black metal projects, delivering raw, lo-fi compositions from a remote town in southern Turkey. Their extensive discography and confrontational artistic approach have made them a polarizing figure in the Turkish and international underground.
Vircolac is a death metal band from Dublin, Ireland, active since 2014, delivering "morbid tales of the macabre and visions from the darkside." Their discography — from 2014's "Codex Perfida" through 2024's "Veneration" — showcases evolving yet consistently dark death and black metal with a four-piece lineup.
Out of Westfield, Indiana, Vires blends deathcore's structural aggression with death metal's technical vocabulary, forming a sound that leans into the punishing side of the hybrid. Founded in 2022, they represent the newer generation of Midwest extreme metal acts bringing a modernized heaviness to a scene with deep underground roots.
Virgil is a blackened deathcore project from the Hauts-de-France region, active since 2000. With over two decades of activity, they blend blackened atmospherics with deathcore's crushing breakdowns.
Texas-based Virgin Bleeds operates in the most uncompromising corner of raw black metal — lo-fi production, abrasive compositions, and a complete indifference to accessibility. Active since 2019, the project favors corrosive atmosphere over polish, channeling the isolation and hostility that define the rawer end of the American black metal underground.
Swedish project Virgin Forest crafts patient, heavy doom metal with an emphasis on crushing riffs and oppressive atmosphere. Their compositions unfold with deliberate pacing, building immense weight through distorted, sustained guitar work.
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