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Featured Album
"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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French psychedelic stoner/doom metal band from Dijon, formed in 2020. They craft hallucinatory doom from the Burgundian capital.
French heavy/power metal band from Perpignan, formed in 2021. They deliver wise heavy and power metal from the Catalan-French border city.
German heavy metal band from Ludwigshafen, formed in 2018. They play classic heavy metal with a wizardly edge from the Rhine-Neckar industrial heartland.
Blindado are an Argentine heavy metal band founded by members Charly, Jorge, Adrián, and Juan, who released their debut album "Distorsión" in 2007 through Hurling Metal Records, featuring driving riffs, extended guitar solos, and even a heavy metal take on the tango standard "Yira-Yira." A second album, "En Las Calles", followed on the same label before the band returned in 2017 with "Argentina Despierta", an independently released record with politically charged lyrics addressing Argentine society. They remain active today.
Gdynia-based progressive extreme metal band formed in 1999, whose dramatic evolution from atmospheric sludge metal through post-metal to avant-garde experimentation earned them a Fryderyk Award nomination. Across albums like Affliction XXIX II MXMVI and Ascension, they proved one of Poland's most ambitious heavy acts before disbanding in 2022.
Polish progressive/post-metal act active since 2022, building dynamic compositions that traverse atmospherics and crushing heaviness through extended, narrative-driven structures. Their patient songwriting rewards the listener with cathartic builds.
Since 2014, this Italian thrash metal act has delivered high-velocity riff assaults from Milan. Their sound channels the raw energy of the genre's golden era through tight musicianship.
Spanish death/thrash metal and metalcore band from Laudio in the Basque Country, formed in 2015. They fuse extreme metal aggression with metalcore dynamics from the Basque Alava province.
Danish melodic death metal band from Copenhagen, formed in 2013. They craft Gothenburg-inspired melodic death metal from the Danish capital.
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