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Featured Album
Where Fear And Weapons Meet (2021)
Featured Grindcore Album
Hold Your Children Close and Pray for Oblivion (2016)
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Featured Doom Metal Album
Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Rising Sun, Maryland band formed in 2020 that pursues a progressive heavy and thrash metal sound, building on classic metal foundations with expanded song structures and technical ambition.
Sydra deliver heavy and thrash metal from Freiburg im Breisgau, combining classic metal foundations with thrash's aggressive velocity. Active since 2018, they bring dual-genre intensity to the Black Forest capital.
Punta Gorda, Florida band formed in 2010 that has evolved considerably over its career, beginning in progressive power metal before gravitating toward a harder groove and thrash metal sound with a consistently wide-ranging musical sensibility.
Chicago heavy/thrash metal band formed in 2012, blending traditional metal's melodic sensibility with thrash-driven aggression in the spirit of the Midwest's understated but productive underground metal scene.
Heavy metal band from Medford, Oregon, formed in 2018, drawing on classic metal traditions to craft a straightforward and riff-driven sound from the Pacific Northwest.
Heavy metal band from Pottsville, Pennsylvania, formed in 2017, rooted in traditional metal song craft and occupying a region of Pennsylvania with a long history of working-class rock and metal.
Oklahoma City heavy and power metal band formed in 2025, blending traditional metal muscle with melodic power metal sensibilities on the emerging Oklahoma City scene.
Los Angeles heavy metal band formed in 2024, rooted in the classic and traditional metal idiom of the city that helped define the genre's commercial and underground branches alike.
Heavy metal band from Orange, California, formed in 2023, carrying on the traditional metal sound with direct, guitar-driven songwriting.
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