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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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The Silent Wedding is a heavy/power metal band from Athens, formed in 2022. Their evocative name lends an air of ceremony and gravity to their powerful metal from the Greek capital.
The Slaughters from Toulouse deliver heavy metal with the butchery their plural-massacre name demands since 2012. Over a decade of riff-driven slaughter from the Pink City has produced classic, no-frills metal.
Staunton, Virginia heavy metal and hard rock band active since 2010, operating in the tradition of classic American heavy metal with a straightforward approach that values riff, groove, and the kind of songwriting clarity that has always been the backbone of the genre. Their Virginia roots put them in a state with deep heavy music history.
The Steamrollers from Strasbourg deliver southern metal with the flattening, unstoppable force their industrial-machinery name promises since 2011. Over a decade of Dixie-soaked heaviness from the Alsatian capital — about as far from the American South as possible — they have transplanted the genre with conviction.
The Strikes is a heavy metal band from Cosenza, Italy, formed in 2018. They deliver hard-hitting traditional heavy metal from the Calabria region.
Austrian doom/heavy metal band active from 2008 to 2010, The Tempter crafted slow, traditional doom in the vein of classic early-1980s heavy metal. The band was short-lived, leaving behind a limited body of work documented on their Bandcamp page at thetempter.bandcamp.com.
An avant-garde metal outfit from Belton, Missouri, The Thomas Thompson Earth Project formed in 2020 and pursues unconventional song structures and experimental textures within a heavy metal framework. Their music pushes against genre expectations, favoring dissonance and abstraction over conventional riffing.
A heavy and power metal act out of Leverett, Massachusetts, The Threat formed in 2023 with a sound rooted in classic metal tradition — muscular riffing, assertive vocals, and songs built around momentum and impact. Despite being newly formed, they carry the conviction of bands with far longer histories.
The Tossed from the tiny Lower Saxon village of Barver deliver heavy metal with a rough-hewn, unpretentious energy since 2012. Their rural origin in the Diepholz marshlands gives their traditional metal an authentically remote, DIY character.
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