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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
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Soundtrack to Your Escape (The Quiet Place Version) (2022)
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Featured Heavy Metal Album
Borderland (2025)
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Underground to the core, this heavy metal act from Nereto (Teramo) traffics in iron-clad riffs and soaring melodic passages. Since 2022, they've built a catalog that reflects Italy's underrated but thriving metal community.
On the warpath since 2016, this Flekkefjord Heavy Metal outfit delivers twin-guitar harmonies and commanding vocal lines. Their place within the frozen north that birthed an entire genre speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Heavy/doom metal band from Eupen in Belgium's German-speaking community, forging crushing, slow-burning heaviness since 2021. Their sound merges the weight of doom with traditional heavy metal power from one of Belgium's most culturally distinct regions.
In existence since 2018, this Turin Heavy Metal and Thrash Metal outfit delivers breakneck tempos and razor-sharp riff attacks. Their place within Italy's underrated but thriving metal community speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Heavy/stoner metal act from Randers, Denmark, forging thick, fuzz-laden compositions since 2021. Their nascent, growth-referencing name hints at the organic, developing quality of their heavy, stoner-infused sound.
Detroit's Embryos keep their feet planted in the blue-collar tradition of heavy metal, delivering straightforward riffs built for loud rooms and louder crowds. Formed in 2017, they carry the Motor City's grit into everything they record.
Melodic heavy metal act from Aviles in Asturias, Spain, crafting hook-driven, powerful compositions since 2013. Their gem-inspired name captures the polished, sparkling quality of their melodic metal from Spain's northern coast.
Hailing from the Inland Empire city of Fontana, this California power metal outfit blends soaring clean vocals with twin-guitar harmonies that land somewhere between classic US heavy metal and European power metal pageantry.
Tucson's Emerald draw on hard rock swagger and traditional heavy metal muscle, crafting a sound rooted in the desert Southwest's no-nonsense approach to loud guitars and driving rhythms.
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