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Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Stoner metal act from Schijndel, formed in 2023. Their compositions ride low-slung grooves through clouds of distortion, evoking the sun-baked psychedelia of the desert rock tradition.
Heavy Blackened Death Metal from Houston.
Finnish melodic heavy/gothic metal and rock band from Alajärvi, formed in 2012. They blend melodic heaviness with gothic atmosphere from rural South Ostrobothnia.
French heavy metal and hard rock band from Pau in the Pyrenees, formed in 2023. They play earth-shaking heavy metal from the foot of the French Pyrenees.
German heavy metal and hard rock band from Wiesbaden, formed in 2014. They bridge classic hard rock and heavy metal with high-energy performances.
German heavy metal band from Brunswick, formed in 2015. They play classic, no-frills heavy metal with a booze-fueled, good-time attitude.
Heavy and gothic metal band from Pettenbach, Austria, active since 2012. They weave together the weight of heavy metal with gothic atmosphere and dark, dramatic arrangements.
Heavy metal outfit from Skopje, formed in 2022. Their material channels the spirit of iron-fisted riffing and anthemic songwriting that has defined heavy metal since its inception.
Finnish heavy/thrash metal band from Lahti, formed in 2017. Named after England's most haunted house, they deliver ghostly thrash-heavy metal.
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