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Prior Convictions (2025)
Featured Sludge Metal Album
Blind (Expanded Edition) (2021)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
07/15 @ Hawthorne Theatre, Portland
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Blood Dynasty (24-bit HD audio) (2024)
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Draper, Utah's Elderwood draws on atmospheric folk and black metal traditions to evoke the ancient forests and wide landscapes that sit just beyond the Wasatch Front. Active since 2016, the band channels a pastoral, deeply rooted mysticism.
Richmond's Eldritch have spent well over a decade warping the death/doom template with psychedelic currents, producing music that feels both ancient and hallucinatory — slow, murky, and deeply strange.
Solo symphonic/viking metal project by multi-instrumentalist Christoph V., combining majestic orchestral arrangements with heavy 7-string guitar work and Norse mythological themes.
A Montana solo project born in 2021, Eldvargr deals in raw black metal stripped to its most primal and hostile — thin production and unyielding misanthropy suited to the vast, cold terrain of the American Northwest.
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania's Electric Animal occupies an unusual crossroads between dungeon synth atmospherics and black metal ferocity, building dark, otherworldly soundscapes since 2012 that blur the line between ambiance and aggression.
Indianapolis's Electric Satan cast a wide net across blackened death and doom metal, forging a sound since 2018 that is equal parts sinister and suffocating — the city's underground distilled into something genuinely malevolent.
Oakland's Electromancy bring a technical precision to black metal that sets them apart from the Bay Area pack — formed in 2020, they channel the city's intellectual extremity into densely constructed, technically demanding compositions.
Highstown, New Jersey's Elegia have been delivering traditional power and speed metal since 2010, their songs built around soaring melodic ambition and the kind of riff gallop that lives somewhere between Running Wild and Riot.
Operating out of Allegany, Elegiac is a black metal project formed in 2021 that leans into raw emotion and atmospheric density — music shaped by small-town isolation and the genre's oldest instincts.
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