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Featured Album
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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Oshkosh, Wisconsin speed metal/punk hybrid delivering reckless, high-velocity riffing. Their sound is an unapologetic collision of Motörhead worship and skate-punk energy from America's heartland.
With a provocatively uncensored French name that translates as a universal insult, this anonymous black metal project has been channeling confrontational fury since 2020. Their deliberately offensive moniker signals a project that prioritizes provocation alongside their extreme music.
Allfader has evolved from black metal into a black and death metal hybrid from Mo i Rana in Nordland since 2024. Their Old Norse name meaning 'All-Father,' an epithet of Odin, connects them to the mythological tradition that pervades Norwegian extreme metal.
Allfather merges doom, groove, and sludge metal from the Medway towns in Kent since 2014, named after the Norse supreme deity Odin. Over a decade of crushing, multi-genre heaviness from the Thames estuary speaks to deep roots in the southeast's underground.
Allgema channels groove metal from Lisbon since 2020. Their Portuguese name meaning 'handcuff' or 'shackle' drives compositions of constrained, rhythmically imprisoned aggression from the capital.
Heavy metal band from Brest, Belarus, listed in the Encyclopaedia Metallum as an active act from the western Belarusian city. Their material sits within the broader heavy metal tradition, representing one of the few metal outfits to emerge from Brest's comparatively small metal scene.
Urbana, Illinois heavy metal project with a burst of seven releases in 2024 alone. A prolific output suggesting a solo-driven endeavor fueled by restless creative energy.
Alliance is a progressive power metal band from Fortaleza, Ceará, bringing the melodic ambition of the genre to Brazil's northeast. Formed in 2014, they sit within a tradition of Brazilian power and prog metal acts known for technically ambitious compositions and soaring vocals.
Alliberant is a raw black metal project born in Barcelona in 2025, channeling Catalan identity and underground fury into their nascent sound. The project represents the newest wave of Catalonia's prolific black metal underground.
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