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Divine (2024)
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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)
05/07 @ Gramercy Theatre, New York
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A Los Angeles heavy metal outfit formed in 2017, Prowler draw on the melodic, leather-and-chrome aesthetic of traditional metal — clean vocals, galloping rhythms, and guitar work that nods to the NWOBHM and American power metal bands that ruled the Sunset Strip era. Their music rewards fans who prize craft and songcraft over extreme noise.
Death metal and metalcore band from Soncino, Italy, formed in 2018, whose Latin name means 'dust and shadow.' They blend death metal heaviness with metalcore impact from the Lombardy countryside.
Melodic death, thrash metal, and metalcore band from Tiverton, England, formed in 2013, blending multiple aggressive styles into a cohesive attack from rural Devon. They bring versatile metallic fury to the West Country.
Metalcore and melodic death metal band from Sandnes and Stavanger, Norway, formed in 2012, blending Scandinavian melodic death metal with modern metalcore from the oil capital region. They bring heavy, hook-laden aggression to the Rogaland scene.
New Jersey progressive death metal and metalcore hybrid formed in 2023, fusing the technical ambition of modern death metal with the structural hooks of metalcore in a combination that reflects the dense, polyglot heavy music scene of the mid-Atlantic.
Metalcore band from Lleida, Spain, formed in 2017, delivering heavy breakdowns and aggressive energy from the western Catalan capital. They bring modern metal intensity to the Spanish metalcore scene.
Milwaukee death metal and metalcore hybrid active since 2007, a long-running fixture of the Wisconsin underground combining the blunt-force trauma of death metal with metalcore's structural aggression.
České Budějovice's Pyromann fuses groove metal's rhythmic punch with metalcore's dynamic shifts, active since 2021. Their South Bohemian base provides a platform in one of the Czech Republic's more active regional metal scenes.
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