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"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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Brighton metallic hardcore unit delivering punishing crossover aggression on their debut Chapter I. Self-described as 'evil metallic hardcore,' they merge the speed and rawness of hardcore punk with the heaviness of extreme metal.
Blood Horror is a death metal band from Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil, formed in 2015 and currently on hold. The band emerged from the underground metal scene of Florianópolis and released material independently before going dormant.
Death metal outfit from Rožňava, formed in 2014. Their sound draws from the genre's foundational playbook of crushing riffs, blast beats, and growled vocals, executed with the conviction of dedicated extremists.
German melodic death/thrash metal band from Schwerin, formed in 2015. They craft melodic death-thrash from the capital of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
Denver's Blood Incantation have become the most critically acclaimed death metal band of their generation by channeling cosmic themes through technically dazzling, progressive songwriting. Their 2019 album 'Hidden History of the Human Race' was hailed as a modern death metal masterpiece, while 2022's ambient album 'Timewave Zero' showed their willingness to abandon metal entirely when the creative vision demands it. They bring an intellectual depth and sonic ambition to extreme metal that recalls early Morbid Angel at their most exploratory.
Blood Insanity is a Brazilian raw black metal project formed in 2022, operating within the underground DIY black metal tradition. The project has released a self-titled demo and the single "Sexta-Feira Santa," working independently without label backing.
Glasgow noise and black metal project whose prolific output includes Rotten Pose (released on tape through Tour De Garde), N.K. Ultra, and Semtexejaculate. Their evolution from raw black metal into abrasive power electronics reflects a restless creative vision.
Danish death/thrash metal and metalcore band from Aarhus, formed in 2011. They fuse death-thrash aggression with metalcore dynamics from Denmark's second city.
Melodic death metal outfit from Rome, formed in 2008. Twin-guitar harmonies and soaring lead work temper the brutality of blast beats and growled vocals, creating compositions that are both punishing and anthemic.
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