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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
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Savona-based thrash metal act active since 2014, delivering riff-driven aggression rooted in the genre's foundational principles of speed, precision, and relentless energy. Their material channels the spirit of 1980s thrash through a Italian filter.
Athenian heavy/power metal act formed in 2013, delivering dual-guitar harmonies and soaring vocal performances rooted in the classic European power metal tradition. Their compositions channel the epic scope and melodic sensibility that Greek metal has been known for since the days of Manilla Road's Hellenic disciples.
German heavy metal band from Wetzlar, formed in 2024. They bring fresh traditional heavy metal to the Hessian metal underground.
Sheffield duo crafting suffocating sludge and doom, whose sophomore album The Dead Replenish The Earth was recorded in freezing winter conditions and released through Dry Cough Records and Heavenly Vault in 2024. Their sound weaves moments of dark beauty into crushing walls of distortion and despair.
German heavy/power metal band from Neuforweiler, formed in 2012. They deliver commanding power metal with strong heavy metal foundations from the Saarland region.
Blind One Came were a death metal band from Bogotá, Colombia, active from 2009 until splitting up sometime after 2013. Their sole full-length, Remnants, was released in 2010, and the band appeared on the Patria Extrema Vol. 1 compilation in 2013.
Blind One Came were a death metal band from Bogotá, Colombia, active from 2009 until splitting up sometime after 2013. Their sole full-length, Remnants, was released in 2010, and the band appeared on the Patria Extrema Vol. 1 compilation in 2013.
Spanish thrash/groove metal band from Palma on Mallorca, active since 1987. With nearly four decades of history, they are one of Spain's longest-running metal bands and a Balearic Islands institution.
Heavy metal outfit from Moscow, formed in 2018. Their material channels the spirit of iron-fisted riffing and anthemic songwriting that has defined heavy metal since its inception.
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