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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
Death Atlas (2019)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Buffalo, NY groove metal and metalcore band that combines hard-swinging rhythmic heaviness with the intensity of modern metalcore. Their sound hits like a sledgehammer with a purpose.
Groove metal band from Bailen in Jaen province, Spain, active since 2007. They deliver heavy, rhythm-driven metal from the Andalusian interior.
Groove and heavy metal band from Leon, Spain, emerging in 2025. They bring fresh groove-heavy metal energy to the Castilian scene.
Groove-thrash-metalcore hybrid from Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, active since 2014. Cosmogon delivers genre-crossing aggression from the country's second-largest city.
Indianapolis groove/progressive metal band Cotopaxi pair heavy, rhythmically locked riffs with the technical ambition of progressive metal. Their songs build tension through dynamic shifts before landing in deeply satisfying pocket grooves.
Groove-thrash act from Kovin in the Banat region, formed in 2026. CounterIgnition represents the newest wave of Serbian thrash metal.
Fayetteville, Georgia's Covenant fuse groove metal's mid-tempo heaviness with thrash aggression and death metal bite. They operate in the tradition of mid-90s American metal, where crossover brutality was the defining characteristic.
Shreveport's Covenant deal in groove and thrash metal with a distinctly Southern backbone, built on heavy mid-tempo riffs and muscular song structures. Their sound fits comfortably alongside the hard-hitting regional tradition of Louisiana heavy music.
Dayton, Ohio's Covered in Scars combine death metal aggression with the mid-tempo swagger of groove metal, built on thick riffs and hard-hitting drums. Their sound is straightforward and heavy, rooted in the Midwest's no-nonsense approach to extreme music.
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