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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Serpent & Spirit (2021)
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Heavy metal and progressive metal band from Lyon, France active since 1996. With nearly three decades of activity, they are veterans of the French progressive metal scene.
Asheville's Enoch draws on the Blue Ridge Mountain town's fertile heavy underground, blending stoner warmth, sludge filth, and doom's glacial weight into a sound that feels deeply rooted in the Appalachian soil.
Heavy metal band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2023, delivering classic, riff-centered compositions from the German capital. Their approach channels the enduring power of traditional heavy metal with fresh energy.
Part of the UK's ever-evolving heavy music tradition, this act channels doom metal and heavy metal with a focus on tectonic grooves and sorrowful melodic passages. Formed in 2020, based in Belfast, the low end alone could register on seismographs.
Trading in pure metallic intensity, this heavy metal act from Tarsia (Cosenza)/Roggiano Gravina (Cosenza) traffics in iron-clad riffs and soaring melodic passages. Since 2017, they've built a catalog that reflects Italy's underrated but thriving metal community.
Detroit's Entice arrived in 2024 carrying the motor city's legacy of heavy music into a heavy/thrash metal template — hard-hitting riffs and road-tested toughness baked into a city with no shortage of metalheads to answer to.
Portland's Enticer has been flying the flag for traditional heavy metal since 2014 in a city better known for its extreme acts, keeping the NWOBHM spirit alive with soaring riffs and a reverence for the genre's classic foundations.
New Haven's Entierro began as a stoner/doom outfit before steering toward heavier traditional metal, a trajectory that reflects a band constantly testing what it means to be heavy — slow and hazy one era, riff-forward and purposeful the next. Active since 2014.
Hailing from the Sierra Nevada foothills of Pine Grove, California, Entropathy bring a classic heavy metal ethos to an area better known for pine trees than power chords, formed in 2019.
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