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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
Featured Power Metal Album
No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Liars & Thieves (2024)
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Heavy metal band from Amadora, in the Lisbon metropolitan area, active since 2012. Casablanca has spent over a decade delivering classic heavy metal from the Greater Lisbon area.
Heavy thrash band from Soncino in Cremona province, Lombardy, formed in 2023. Casagrande brings aggressive, old-school energy to the Italian thrash revival.
Melodic death-power metal act from Saint Petersburg, active since 2011. Cascabel delivers versatile, melody-driven metal from Russia's cultural capital.
Cincinnati heavy and stoner metal band fusing fuzz-drenched riffs and swaggering grooves with the hard-rock DNA that underpins classic heavy metal.
Heavy metal band from Kuden in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, formed in 2015. They craft straightforward, riff-driven heavy metal from the North German plains.
Sacramento act blending technical death metal with progressive structures and thrash-driven aggression, channeling complex rhythmic shifts into a sound that feels both cerebral and visceral.
Cassius King traffic in slow, hazy heaviness out of Ramsey, NJ, combining doom's funeral weight with stoner rock's warm fuzz for a sound built on thick riffs and deliberate, oppressive pacing.
Heavy metal band from Hameenlinna, Finland, active since 2011. They deliver classic heavy metal from the historic Tavastian capital.
San Francisco's Castle deal in heavy, riff-forward doom with a traditional heavy metal backbone, favoring massive guitar tones and a bluesy, earth-shaking heaviness over experimental detours.
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