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Borderland (2025)
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Unholy Savior (2015)
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Donostia-San Sebastián's Padre Lobo — 'Father Wolf' in Spanish — has been roaming the Basque Country with stoner-sludge fury since 2015. Their coastal Basque setting adds maritime grit to their tar-thick, riff-worshipping sound.
Heavy metal band from Agder, Norway, active since 1995, making them one of the longest-running heavy metal acts in southern Norway. Three decades of pride in their craft mark them as true veterans.
Heavy metal band from Cambados and Vilanova de Arousa in Galicia, Spain, formed in 2016. They bring classic heavy metal thunder to the Atlantic coast of northwestern Spain.
Progressive doom and heavy metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2020, digging deep into the primal origins of heavy music through progressive doom. They bring rooted, elemental heaviness to the Greek metal community.
Thrash and heavy metal band from Khabarovsk, Russia, formed in 2024, delivering aggressive metal from the Russian Far East near the Chinese border. They bring fresh thrash energy from across the continent.
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.
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