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2112 is a progressive rock and heavy metal band from Buenos Aires, Argentina, formed in 1986 and named in honour of the Rush album, which they pronounce in Spanish as "Veinti Uno Doce." The band has released five studio albums spanning from Alterando las divisiones (1990) to Nuestro mejor fracaso (2020), with guitarist Juan Tambussi and drummer Sergio Moscatelli as long-standing core members.
3 Inches of Blood is a Canadian heavy metal band formed in Victoria, British Columbia in 1999, built around a dual-vocal attack pairing clean power metal singing with aggressive shrieks. Drawing from NWOBHM, power metal, and speed metal, the band released six studio albums, most notably Advance and Vanquish (2004) and Came Out to Battle (2007) on Roadrunner Records, before Long Live Heavy Metal arrived in 2012 on Century Media. They disbanded in 2015 and reunited in 2023, remaining one of the more distinctive Canadian acts to revive traditional metal aesthetics in the 2000s.
9MM is a German heavy metal and hard rock band from Hanau, Hesse, formed in 2006 from the remnants of the band Rotten, which had been active from 1991 to 2006. The band has released albums steadily across the 2000s and 2010s, working in a traditional hard rock and heavy metal style. They remain an active presence in the German club metal circuit.
A heavy metal band from Fortaleza, Ceará, active from 2010 until their split-up. Operating out of the northeastern Brazilian metal underground, they released music through their Bandcamp page, blending traditional heavy metal within a scene more commonly dominated by extreme genres.
A New Dawn blends melodic death, gothic, and heavy metal from Rotterdam since 2012, their optimistic name promising renewal through the interplay of multiple metal styles. Over a decade in the Netherlands' second city, they have crafted a distinctively Dutch brand of melodic metal.
A Taste of Freedom delivers heavy metal from Paris since 2011, channeling the French capital's revolutionary spirit into classic metal anthems. Their libertarian name captures the emancipating power of heavy metal at its most triumphant.
Santa Cruz, California melodic death metal project. Biblical language channeled through Scandinavian-influenced riffing from the coastal redwoods.
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A'tak plays heavy metal and hard rock from Żary in western Poland since 2024. From this Lubuskie town near the German border, they deliver classic-leaning metal with border-region grit.
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