10/07/2024
Hellripper is a one-man blackened speed metal band hailing from Aberdeen, Scotland. Founded by James McBain in 2014, Hellripper channels influences from classic thrash and black metal, delivering a high-octane blend of speed and aggression. McBain handles all instruments and vocals, crafting raw, energetic music that captures the essence of old-school metal with a modern edge. Known for their fierce live performances and a string of acclaimed EPs and albums like "Coagulating Darkness" and "Black Arts & Alchemy," Hellripper continues to be a force in the underground metal scene, celebrated for their relentless energy and devilish charm.
Escuela Grind, formed in 2016 in Upstate New York, is known for their intense blend of grindcore, powerviolence, and death metal. Their music features relentless blast beats, guttural vocals, and socially conscious lyrics. They gained recognition with their debut album "Indoctrination" in 2020, and continued to push boundaries with their second album "Memory Theater," produced by Kurt Ballou of Converge. Escuela Grind's ethos revolves around intersectional progressive values and inclusivity, challenging musical norms and gatekeeping within the extreme music scene.
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TRAITOR
Following their acclaimed debut "Thrash Command" (2012) and strong successors "Venomizer" (2015) and "Knee-Deep In The Dead" (2018), TRAITOR released their fourth studio album, "Exiled To The Surface," in summer 2022. Formed in 2009, the band quickly gained underground recognition with their demos and established themselves with powerful thrash metal influenced by both Bay Area and German scenes.
With new guitarist Matthias Koch adding technicality and brutality, TRAITOR maintained their reputation as a fantastic live band. Their latest album features guest vocals from SODOM's Tom Angelripper on "Total Thrash," the title track for a German thrash metal documentary. Known for their video game and sci-fi inspired lyrics and artwork by Pär Olofson, TRAITOR continues to evolve and deliver intense metal music.
Srd’s journey began with the release of their debut album, "Smrti sel" (2016), which gained a positive reception and transformed the solo project into a full band, leading to live performances. Their success led to them supporting Shining from Sweden on a European tour in 2019. Their second album, "Ognja Prerok" (2020), showed maturity but was released during challenging times, resulting in limited shows and a band reformation. In 2024, Srd released their third album, "vragvmesiton," which, while differing from their earlier work, still maintains their core musical aesthetic.
Hobos formed in 2012 in Venice, Italy, from the band Outsider. After Gigi left, Luca, Fabio, Daniele, and Federico shifted from groove metal to metal punk with Swedish death metal influences and Italian lyrics. Their self-titled debut album was released on vinyl by Assurd Records, featuring the video "Comincio a capire."
Touring extensively in Italy, they released splits with Spavaldery and Border Bastards and played with bands like Vitamin X and Obituary. Matteo joined in 2016, and they released "Nell'era dell'apparenza," a critique of modern society, via Assurd and Spikerot Records.
The pandemic halted their shows, but they resumed with temporary members Lorenzo and Saverio. In October 2022, Alessio became the permanent drummer, enabling Hobos to tour again, opening for Integrity and Suffocation, and working on a new record. The band continues blending punk and metal with their unique ethos.
Rabid Dogs is a trio formed in 2009 in Atessa, Italy. Their music is a fusion of grindcore, sludge and raw rock & roll, melting it all with pulp and cinematic lyrics. After an early demo, in 2011 the band released their homonym debut album and started an intense live activity across all Europe. Since then, others 2 full-lenghts and 1 EP were released, evolving their sound in something more original and gaining the stage of important European festivals.
In 2022 the band released their new album “Black Cowslip” under Time To Kill Records, a big step forward on their path of excess, bad taste and hopeless rock ‘n’ roll.
