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Featured Album
"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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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Danish heavy metal band from Copenhagen, active since 2006. With two decades of experience, they are a veteran presence in Copenhagen's classic metal scene.
Khabarovsk-based gothic metal act active since 2021, interweaving dark romantic atmospheres with heavy guitar work and dramatic vocal performances. Their sound draws from the tradition of Type O Negative and Paradise Lost, balancing heaviness with melancholic beauty.
Spanish black metal band from Catalonia, formed in 2025. They deliver ecstatic black metal from the Catalan underground.
Death metal outfit from Naturno (Bolzano), formed in 2010. Their sound draws from the genre's foundational playbook of crushing riffs, blast beats, and growled vocals, executed with the conviction of dedicated extremists.
Uncompromising death metal from Gävle, active since 2015. Their material trades in the genre's heaviest traditions: cavernous vocals, churning guitar work, and percussion that hits with tectonic force.
Berezne (early)/Rivne (later)-based death metal act active since 2012, 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.
Blood Eyes was a heavy and groove metal band from Lages, Santa Catarina, Brazil, active from 2010 until their split-up. The band operated as an independent act within the southern Brazilian underground metal scene, blending the rhythmic aggression of groove metal with traditional heavy metal influences.
Szeged-based goregrind outfit active since 2022, reveling in pitchshifted gurgles, blast beats, and medically-themed depravity. Their short, violent compositions waste no time on niceties, delivering maximum grotesquery in minimum time.
Since 1989, this Icelandic thrash metal act has delivered high-velocity riff assaults from Reykjavík. Their sound channels the raw energy of the genre's golden era through tight musicianship.
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