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Impetus Odi (2021)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Trial By Fire (2023)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Brazen (2024)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Enemy Of God (Remastered) (2024)
05/22 @ The Paramount in concert with Northwell, Huntington
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A 2025 German black metal project, Pyrphoros — Greek for 'fire-bearer' — channels Promethean themes through tremolo-driven compositions. Their classical name suggests an intellectual underpinning to their raw sonic aggression.
Black metal band from Orkelljunga, Sweden, formed in 2017, named after the mythological daughter of Pandora who survived the great flood. Over eight years of mythologically charged black metal from Skane.
Black and death metal band from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2021, delivering explosive blackened death metal from the Russian capital. They bring dark intensity to Moscow's extreme metal community.
Symphonic and power metal band from London, England, formed in 2009, named after the Oracle at Delphi. They deliver dramatic, orchestrally enhanced power metal with commanding vocal performances.
Technical death metal band from Turku, Finland, formed in 2011, delivering technically intricate death metal from Finland's former capital. Their medical-term name suits the clinical precision of their compositions.
Industrial black metal band from Stavanger, Norway, formed in 2013, merging cold industrial textures with black metal from the southwest Norwegian coast. They bring mechanical darkness to the Rogaland scene.
Death and thrash metal band from Chornomorsk, Ukraine, formed in 2012, delivering over a decade of death-thrash from the Black Sea port city near Odesa. They bring maritime extremity to the Ukrainian coast.
Black and pagan metal band from Russia, formed in 2025, bringing heathen fury through freshly forged black metal. They represent the newest wave of Russian pagan metal.
Death and thrash metal band from Manlleu, Spain, formed in 2018, whose Spanish name means 'panic from fear.' They channel that terror into aggressive death-thrash from the Catalan interior.
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