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Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Gilbert, Arizona's Concertina blend fuzzed-out stoner metal grooves with the melodic hooks of traditional heavy metal, building a sound that is both hazy and hook-laden.
Heavy metal band from Afyonkarahisar in central Anatolia, formed in 2025. Conchadors delivers traditional metal from the Turkish interior.
Heavy metal band from Novi Sad, active since 2011. Concrete Sun has spent over a decade delivering traditional metal from the Vojvodina capital.
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Raleigh doom metal band with a cult following built on their unconventional rhythmic approach and vocalist Sel Balamir's striking high-register delivery. Their 1992 debut *Condemned* remains one of the most distinctive American doom records of its era.
Confiteor is a heavy metal band from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, formed in 2018 and active within the city's growing metal scene. The band performs traditional heavy metal and is registered in the Encyclopaedia Metallum as part of the Brazilian heavy metal underground.
Heavy metal band from the small town of Sergach in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, formed in 2022. Confraternita Rock — Italian for 'rock brotherhood' — delivers traditional metal from rural Russia.
Bremerton, Washington band blending classic heavy metal power with black and thrash metal intensity from the Pacific Northwest. Their sound bridges the old-school and extreme metal worlds with energy to spare.
Power and heavy metal band from Belfast, Northern Ireland, formed in 2014. They deliver melodic, anthemic metal from the Northern Irish capital.
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