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Proof (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
Death Atlas (2019)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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French death metal band from Bayonne in the French Basque Country, formed in 2012. They deliver falling death metal from the Atlantic Pyrenean coast.
Finnish melodic death metal band from Vantaa, active since 2005. With two decades of blindfolded melodeath, they are a veteran of the Helsinki-area scene.
Larvik-based death metal act active since 2020, trafficking in the genre's essential currency of guttural vocals, down-tuned riffs, and relentless percussive punishment. Their compositions deliver uncompromising heaviness rooted in the old-school tradition.
German heavy metal and hard rock band from Leipzig, active since 2009. They bridge classic hard rock and heavy metal with energetic live performances.
French melodic/blackened death metal band from Toulouse, formed in 2021. They blend melodic death metal with black metal elements from the Occitan capital.
French death metal and grindcore band from Amiens, formed in 2017. They deliver fear-inducing death-grind from the Picard capital.
French heavy metal band from Miramas in Provence, active since 2007. They play classic heavy metal from the southern French Bouches-du-Rhône region.
French deathcore band from Strasbourg, formed in 2017. They deliver crushing deathcore from the Alsatian capital.
Spanish melodic death/groove metal band from Lleida in Catalonia, formed in 2014. They blend melodic death metal harmonies with groove metal's rhythmic weight.
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