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Divine (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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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Brooklyn's Empire of Dust arrived in 2023 blending melodic thrash aggression with metalcore structure, channeling New York City's restless energy into a sound that moves between technical riffing and muscular breakdown momentum.
Out of Moberly, Missouri, Empusa with Devastation channel melodic death metal and metalcore into something sharp and unsettled, a young band already reaching for vicious complexity since their 2023 formation.
New York's Empyreon charted a dramatic course from power metal origins toward melodic death metal and metalcore, an evolution spanning nearly two decades that reflects genuine stylistic ambition.
Electronic metalcore and melodic death metal hybrid from Quartu Sant'Elena, Sardinia formed in 2022, fusing programmed electronics with heavy guitar-driven aggression. Their approach bridges the gap between digital production and organic metalcore intensity.
California's Encrypted bring orchestral grandeur and cinematic sweep to symphonic metal, a genre-first project launched in 2024 with an ear for drama and scale. Still early in their trajectory, they're building something ambitious from the ground up.
New Bedford, Massachusetts' End It All cast a wide net across melodic death, thrash, and metalcore, blending the genres with a coastal aggression that feels rooted in the Northeast's hard-nosed DIY culture. Formed in 2017, they haven't picked a lane — and it works.
Metalcore and deathcore act from Lucerne, Switzerland, bringing crushing breakdowns and aggressive intensity since 2020. Their sound merges the rhythmic precision of metalcore with deathcore's heavier, more extreme tendencies.
Baltimore's End Reign pull from crossover thrash, metalcore, and straight-up thrash to produce something with the urgency of punk and the technical bite of metal — fitting for a city with deep hardcore roots and a battle-hardened heavy music scene.
Death metal, melodic death metal, and metalcore band from Seinajoki, Finland active since 2014. They deliver aggressive, modern extreme metal from the Ostrobothnian plains.
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