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Featured Album
Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
The Bestiary (2025)
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Featured Metalcore Album
American Sun (Reimagined) (2021)
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Heavy metal outfit from Poland, formed in 2019. Their material channels the spirit of iron-fisted riffing and anthemic songwriting that has defined heavy metal since its inception.
Spanish progressive heavy/doom metal band from Seville, formed in 2024. They blend progressive ambition with heavy and doom metal weight from Andalusia.
Intense Heavy Metal from Fort Worth.
French heavy metal and hard rock band from Chelles near Paris, formed in 2020. They play bottom-line heavy metal from the eastern Parisian suburbs.
German heavy/power metal band from Frankfurt an der Oder, active since 2008. They deliver boundless power metal anthems from the eastern German border city.
German heavy/power metal band from Fürth in Franconia, formed in 2013. They deliver powerful heavy and power metal from the Nuremberg metropolitan area.
German heavy/speed metal band from Lower Saxony, formed in 2016. They combine heavy metal foundations with speed metal's blistering pace.
Ballymoney-based southern metal act active since 2022, injecting blues-influenced swagger and whiskey-soaked groove into their heavy, riff-driven sound. Their music channels the spirit of American Southern rock and metal through a British perspective.
Estonian heavy metal and shred artist from Tallinn, formed in 2017, whose sound later shifted toward rock. They combine technical guitar virtuosity with heavy metal foundations.
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