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Actin' Up (2023)
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The Mountain Of Gold (2018)
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HYPA HYPA Tour - Live In Ludwigsburg (2023)
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The Atlantic Albums (2019)
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Heavy and thrash metal band from Sandhurst, England, formed in 2016, delivering primal, hard-hitting metal from the Berkshire military town. They combine classic heavy metal with thrash aggression.
Salt Lake City's Principium have been crafting progressive heavy metal since 2022, drawing on the tradition of bands that treat metal as a vehicle for compositional ambition rather than genre exercise. Utah's metal scene is smaller than most but fiercely devoted, which tends to produce bands with genuine patience for development, and Principium fit that profile — unhurried, technically oriented, and clearly interested in songwriting craft above shock value. Their work sits in the space where classic heavy metal meets modern progressive arrangements.
Boston's Prison Hit have been grinding out heavy metal with a punk sensibility since 2015, occupying the gritty overlap between traditional metal and the working-class hostility of hardcore punk. Metal-Archives tags them as 'Heavy Metal/Punk,' and that hyphen covers a lot of ground — think street-level riffs, no-frills production, and the kind of attitude that comes from a city with a deep tradition in both genres. Boston's scene is competitive and unforgiving, which has sharpened Prison Hit into a tight, purposeful unit.
Heavy metal band from Logrono, Spain, formed in 2020, delivering classic heavy metal from the Rioja wine country. They bring traditional metal energy to a region better known for its vineyards.
Heavy and power metal band from Krakow, Poland, formed in 2021, sailing under the flag of classic European heavy and power metal. They bring anthemic pirate-spirited metal to Krakow's legendary metal community.
Prizanor is a heavy metal project out of Galion, Ohio that emerged in 2024, carrying the torch for traditional metal in a small Midwestern city far from the usual scenes. Still early in their formation, they represent the enduring grassroots impulse that drives metal forward from unexpected places — crafted without pretense and built on the foundation of the genre's classic values.
Pro-Magnum have been holding down Omaha's heavy metal underground since 2015, delivering a sound rooted in the no-frills, riff-first tradition of American heavy metal. Their name channels the hard-hitting energy of the genre's classic era, and a decade into their run they remain a fixture of Nebraska's tight-knit metal community.
Probot is the brainchild of Dave Grohl — a sprawling heavy metal superproject that united some of the most iconic voices in underground metal history, including Lemmy Kilmister, Max Cavalera, Wino, and members of Discharge and Sepultura. Operating out of Alexandria, Virginia and drawing from doom, stoner, groove, and classic heavy metal, the project stands as a reverent and thunderous love letter to the genres that shaped Grohl long before Nirvana.
Heavy, sludge, and stoner metal band from Gdansk, Poland, active since 2007, delivering nearly two decades of heavy, sludge-laden grooves from the Baltic coast. They are veterans of the Pomeranian heavy music scene.
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