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Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Speed-thrash band from Ferrara, formed in 2019. Cocaine Cowboys plays wild, high-velocity thrash and speed metal with outlaw attitude from Emilia-Romagna.
NWOBHM heavy metal band from London, active since 2000. Originally an East End punk band in the late 1970s, Cockney Rejects transitioned into heavy metal, becoming part of the NWOBHM movement.
Sterling Heights, Michigan progressive and power metal band Coda blend melodic ambition with technical craft, reflecting the Detroit area's underappreciated progressive metal tradition. Their sound moves between arena-ready power and complex structural dynamics.
Toms River, New Jersey heavy metal band Code of Silence work in the classic mold, delivering straightforward riffs and powerful hooks with the Jersey Shore's blue-collar metal sensibility. They're a dependable force in the central NJ underground.
Heavy metal band from Ingolstadt, Germany, active since 2014. They forge powerful, classic heavy metal from the Bavarian Danube city.
Groove, heavy, and thrash metal band from the Pegnitz/Bayreuth area of Upper Franconia, Germany, active since 2013. They blend heavy grooves with thrash aggression and classic heavy metal hooks.
Heavy thrash band from Parižlje in central Slovenia, formed in 2022. Codogast delivers aggressive metal from rural Slovenia.
Progressive heavy metal band from Aix-en-Provence, France, formed in 2020. They blend progressive complexity with heavy metal power from the Provençal heartland.
Heavy metal band from Lunden in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, formed in 2015. They deliver classic, riff-driven heavy metal from the North Sea coast of Germany.
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