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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Groove-thrash metal band from Pockau in the Erzgebirge, Germany, formed in 2016. They blend heavy grooves with thrash aggression from the Saxon mountain region.
Bergen County, New Jersey's Cold-Blooded Capitol plays groove-infused thrash that inherits the dense riffing legacy of the New York/New Jersey metro scene while leaning into the stomping rhythms that defined groove metal's peak.
Groove metal and metalcore band from Toulon, France, formed in 2018. They blend heavy grooves with metalcore dynamics from the Var coast.
Groove metal and metalcore band from Birmingham, England, active since 2010. They blend heavy grooves with metalcore dynamics from the birthplace of heavy metal.
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Progressive death-groove act from Porto, active since 2012. Colosso has earned recognition for their technically ambitious, genre-crossing extreme metal from northern Portugal.
Groove-stoner-thrash act from Saint Petersburg, formed in 2020. Colossus Form merges heavy grooves with stoner fuzz and thrash aggression.
Metalcore and groove metal band from Weyer, Austria, formed in 2017. Their album 'Strains in a Hollow Man' blends melodic metalcore with groove-driven heaviness across six tracks of technically proficient modern metal.
De Queen, Arkansas groove metal outfit Combat Valley bring a Southern-fried heaviness to a genre defined by pocket and punch. Big riffs and a swaggering mid-tempo attack anchor their sound in the heartland.
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