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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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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
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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High Ridge, Missouri death/thrash metal project. Symbolic narrative rendered in extremity from suburban St. Louis.
A Ghent-based solo black metal project operating under the identity "AoD is K.P," with logo artwork by Alice Mores. Their Demo cassette was released through Black Art Production in June 2022, marking a stark entry into the Belgian underground black metal tape circuit.
Detroit power metal project. The Italian musical term — fast and furious — channels Motor City energy through melodic precision.
Aller Sterne Untergang is a solo black metal project from Bremen, Germany, created by the artist Astro, who writes and performs all music, lyrics, and artwork. With a prolific catalog including releases like Sturmtief Nordwest, Existenzphilosophie, and the two-part Grau in Grau series, the project blends atmospheric black metal with introspective, German-language existential themes, and Astro also operates the related projects Dolch and Wintergrau.
Tewksbury, Massachusetts crossover thrash from 1990 — a snapshot of the late-80s/early-90s thrash-meets-punk underground. P.B.A. captures the raw, fast energy of the era's DIY crossover scene.
Alles wird in Flammen stehen creates atmospheric and post-black metal from an undisclosed Russian location since 2020. Their German name — 'everything will be in flames' — drives compositions of prophetic destruction through atmospheric extremity.
Alley explores progressive death metal from Krasnoyarsk since 2013. Over a decade from this major Yenisei River city in central Siberia, they have navigated intricate compositional pathways through death metal's most demanding territory.
Alley Cat is a heavy metal band from Hamburg, Germany, formed in 2010, playing classic heavy metal with an energetic, hard-hitting approach. The band contributes to Hamburg's active metal scene with their riff-driven sound.
Chula Vista, California NWOTHM project. Street-level heavy metal from the South Bay border region.
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