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The Blind Leading The Blind (2019)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Blood Eagle (2017)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
Architects Of A New Weave (Deluxe Album) (2026)
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Severn, Maryland one-man heavy/speed/thrash metal project delivering tightly wound riffs and driving rhythms rooted in the classic metal tradition.
Heavy and power metal band from Tallinn, Estonia, formed in 2021. They deliver melodic, energetic metal from the Estonian capital.
Causa Mortal is a heavy metal band from Villa Ballester, in the San Martín district of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, formed in 2013. The band has performed at Argentine metal festivals including events organized by the Unión de Radios Metaleras, where they have played original material such as "Alumbrado, Barrido y Demencia" and "Privado de la Libertad". They represent the active grassroots heavy metal scene that has long flourished in the greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area.
Austin one-man instrumental metal project by David Menendez ranging freely across thrash, doom, black, and progressive metal, treating each release as a genre-spanning compositional exercise.
Heavy and stoner metal band from the Antrim/Armagh area of Northern Ireland, formed in 2015. They blend classic heavy metal with stoner grooves.
Auburn, New Hampshire traditional heavy metal band drawing from the classic early-1980s American metal and NWOBHM blueprint, emphasizing melody, power, and unadorned song craft.
Black, heavy, and speed metal band from Turnov, Czech Republic, active since 2013. Their sound fuses first-wave black metal darkness with the velocity of speed metal and the power of traditional heavy metal.
Heavy metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2021. They deliver classic heavy metal from the Finnish capital.
Heavy metal band from Tunes in the Algarve, formed in 2021. Cavilha delivers traditional metal from the sunny southernmost region of Portugal.
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