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Proof (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
Death Atlas (2019)
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Make It Rain / On the Other Side of Tonight (2024)
05/07 @ House of Blues Myrtle Beach, North Myrtle Beach
Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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German melodic death metal band from the Recklinghausen-Dortmund area, formed in 2013, whose sound evolved from melodic death metal and metalcore toward brutal death metal. Their increasingly extreme trajectory reflects a deepening commitment to heaviness.
German metalcore and deathcore band from Koblenz, active since 2009. They bring over a decade of breakdown-heavy, aggressive metalcore and deathcore to the Rhineland scene.
Spanish death/thrash metal and metalcore band from Laudio in the Basque Country, formed in 2015. They fuse extreme metal aggression with metalcore dynamics from the Basque Alava province.
Gouveia-based groove metal/metalcore outfit active since 2015, combining crushing syncopated riffs with metalcore's dynamic song structures and breakdown-heavy approach. Their sound bridges pit-ready heaviness with modern extreme metal aggression.
Spanish groove metal and metalcore band from Vegadeo in Asturias, formed in 2016. They deliver heavy grooves with metalcore breakdowns from the western Asturian coast.
German metalcore/thrash/death metal band from Berlin, formed in 2011. They fuse metalcore breakdowns with thrash and death metal aggression for a multifaceted extreme sound.
Kraków-based thrash metal/metalcore act active since 2008, bridging old-school thrash's riff-driven attack with metalcore's modern dynamics and breakdown-heavy structures. Their sound draws from both traditions with aggressive conviction.
Danish death/thrash metal and metalcore band from Aarhus, formed in 2011. They fuse death-thrash aggression with metalcore dynamics from Denmark's second city.
Metalcore and thrash metal band from West Flanders, Belgium, formed in 2026. They represent the newest generation of Belgian extreme metal, merging metalcore breakdowns with thrash metal velocity.
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