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AntiFragile (2025)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Ad Astra (2025)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Serpent & Spirit (2021)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/07 @ Gramercy Theatre, New York
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German death metal and grindcore band from Essen, active since 2006. They bring nearly two decades of death-grind ferocity to the Ruhr Valley underground.
German groove/death metal band from Quedlinburg, formed in 2025. They blend groove metal's rhythmic power with death metal's guttural extremity from the Harz foothills.
Finnish metalcore band from Turku, formed in 2022. They play aggressive metalcore from Finland's oldest city.
German heavy metal band formed in 2010. They play aggressive, riff-driven heavy metal.
Finnish thrash metal band from Helsinki, formed in 2011. They deliver riding thrash metal from the Finnish capital.
Stoner and groove metal band from Dobrich, Bulgaria, active since 2015. They combine fuzz-heavy stoner grooves with the rhythmic punch of groove metal.
Derby-based metalcore act active since 2020, merging hardcore punk's confrontational energy with heavy metal's technical ambition. Their compositions trade between aggressive breakdowns and melodic passages with the dynamic range that defines the genre.
Melodic death metal outfit from Orekhovo-Zuyevo, 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.
Swedish black metal act active since 2020, channeling the genre's core tenets of tremolo-driven riffing and blast-beat fury through a Swedish lens. Their recordings maintain a commitment to the raw, unvarnished aesthetic that defines underground black metal.
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