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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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Folk metal outfit from Rome, formed in 2015. Their sound integrates traditional melodic elements with metal's aggression, creating a festive yet powerful fusion.
Cold, unrelenting black metal from Umeå, active since 2020. Their sound embodies the genre's core principles: razor-sharp tremolo picking, furious drumming, and an atmosphere thick with hostility and darkness.
Hommelvik-based black/viking metal act active since 2021, carving out their niche within the Norwegian heavy music underground. Their compositions reflect a commitment to their chosen sonic palette, delivered with conviction and underground credibility.
Cold, unrelenting black metal from Oslo, active since 2021. Their sound embodies the genre's core principles: razor-sharp tremolo picking, furious drumming, and an atmosphere thick with hostility and darkness.
Danish death metal band from Tilst near Aarhus, active since 2009. They bring bloodlust-fueled death metal to the Jutland scene.
Danish band from Gråsten, formed in 2017, whose sound evolved from groove/death metal toward black metal. Their stylistic transformation reflects an increasingly dark and atmospheric vision.
Cold, unrelenting black metal from Poland, active since 2015. Their sound embodies the genre's core principles: razor-sharp tremolo picking, furious drumming, and an atmosphere thick with hostility and darkness.
French death/black metal band from Périgueux in Dordogne, formed in 2024. They forge blood-eagle death/black metal from the Périgord countryside.
Cold, unrelenting black metal from Filipstad, active since 2011. Their sound embodies the genre's core principles: razor-sharp tremolo picking, furious drumming, and an atmosphere thick with hostility and darkness.
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