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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Head Cage (2018)
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Heavy metal band from Decin in northern Bohemia, Czech Republic, delivering riff-driven power since 2017. Their fantasy-inspired name hints at an epic quality to their traditional heavy metal approach.
Heavy metal and progressive metal band from Brest in Brittany, France, active since 2013. They bring melodic, complex metal from the westernmost city in France.
Heavy metal band from San Esteban de Nogales and Alcubilla de Nogales in Leon province, Spain, formed in 2022. They represent the rural Spanish heavy metal underground.
Heavy metal act from Barcelona, Spain active since 2014. They contribute to Catalonia's thriving traditional metal scene with their hard-hitting sound.
A one-man heavy/power metal institution from rural Vassar, Michigan, Eric VanLandingham has spent over three decades crafting epic, classically influenced metal entirely on his own terms.
A product of Italy's deep-rooted extreme metal underground, this Turin-based folk metal and heavy metal act channels acoustic instrumentation clashing productively with electric fury. Active since 2017, the combination of influences yields something more interesting than any single genre label implies.
Columbus, Ohio's Eris blends gothic atmosphere with death metal brutality, wrapping funereal melodic sensibility around downtuned heaviness in a way that feels both elegiac and aggressive. Formed in 2019, the project channels the goddess of discord into music that holds beauty and destruction in unresolved tension.
Named for the malevolent spirit of Germanic folklore, Columbus, Ohio's Erlking draws on classic heavy metal tradition with a mythic weight that matches its namesake. Formed in 2023, the young band reaches back to the genre's foundational vocabulary — riff-driven songs, soaring leads, and a taste for the arcane.
Heavy metal band from Pamplona, Navarra, Spain that emerged in 2021. They bring youthful energy to the Navarrese heavy metal underground.
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