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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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De Doorn (2022)
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Halo (2017)
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Hilden's Pejora has been fusing melodic death metal with industrial textures since 2014, creating a hybrid that balances organic aggression with mechanized precision. Their North Rhine-Westphalian base places them amid one of Europe's densest concentrations of metal bands.
Groove metal band from Poznan and Pila, Poland, formed in 2014, delivering heavy, rhythmically driven groove metal from the Greater Poland region. They bring headbanging grooves to the Polish underground.
Groove metal band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2015, delivering heavy, rhythmically driven groove metal from the Catalan capital. They bring crushing, head-nodding riffs to the Barcelona metal scene.
A groove metal outfit from Oak Hill, West Virginia, Pynacle brings a hard rock sensibility to heavy riffing, threading accessible hooks through down-tuned, rhythmically driven metal that sits at the muscular intersection of groove and classic hard rock.
Named after the iconic Silent Hill antagonist, Berlin's Pyramid Head has been crafting stoner and groove metal since 2008. Their video-game horror inspiration translates into riffs as heavy and oppressive as their namesake's relentless pursuit.
Long Island's Pyrexia are veterans of the brutal death metal underground dating back to 1993, known for their suffocating low-end density and punishing groove that helped define the New York brutal death sound, with their catalog spanning early extremity to mid-period death-groove experiments.
České Budějovice's Pyromann fuses groove metal's rhythmic punch with metalcore's dynamic shifts, active since 2021. Their South Bohemian base provides a platform in one of the Czech Republic's more active regional metal scenes.
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