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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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German black metal band from Saarlouis, formed in 2019, whose sound evolved from a black/death/gothic metal and rock hybrid toward a purer black metal direction. Their stylistic refinement reflects an increasingly focused vision.
German speed/thrash metal band from Gladbeck, formed in 2018. They deliver blazing speed/thrash metal from the northern Ruhr region.
German death metal band from Saarland, formed in 2025. They bring fresh death metal brutality to the southwestern German underground.
Darlington-based black metal act channeling the raw fury of the North East English underground across releases Occulta Tenebris and their self-titled record. Dark atmospheric passages give way to relentless tremolo-picked aggression.
German death metal band from Kassel, formed in 2022. They channel punishing death metal from the heart of northern Hesse.
German heavy metal band from Plettenberg in the Sauerland, formed in 2015. They play direct, hard-hitting heavy metal from the wooded hills of Westphalia.
Blood Divisions is a Florida heavy metal collective formed in 2015, founded by Chris Jericho (Fozzy, WWE), guitarist David Austin (Nasty Savage), and Ed Aborn, with additional participants drawn from bands including Obituary. Conceived as a charitable project paying homage to Florida's heavy metal roots, the band released a self-titled EP in 2015 and the Cardinal One EP via Metal Blade Records in March 2017. Their sound channels classic American heavy metal riff structures with contributions from the state's longstanding metal community.
Kraków-based thrash metal/metalcore act active since 2008, bridging old-school thrash's riff-driven attack with metalcore's modern dynamics and breakdown-heavy structures. Their sound draws from both traditions with aggressive conviction.
Blood Duster is a Melbourne, Australia grindcore and stoner rock band formed in 1991 by Jason Fuller, Anthony Barry, and Andrew Brown, taking their name from a John Zorn song. Their debut EP Fisting the Dead (1993) established Melbourne's gore-grindcore aesthetic, while Str8 Outta Northcote (1998) became notorious for splicing Southern rock riffs into blasting grindcore. Later records, including the self-titled 2003 album featuring original AC/DC singer Dave Evans, and the experimental 2007 double album Lyden Nå, expanded the band's palette significantly; their final show was in December 2017 before a 2025 reunion was announced.
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