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Featured Album
Let You Go (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
The Bestiary (2025)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Halo (2017)
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NWOBHM-inspired heavy metal band from Cleethorpes, England, formed in 2019. They channel the spirit of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal from the Lincolnshire coast.
NWOBHM-inspired heavy metal band from St. Columb Major in Cornwall, England, formed in 2016. They channel the spirit of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal from the Cornish countryside.
NWOBHM-inspired heavy metal band from Alloa, Scotland, active since 2000. They channel the spirit of classic British heavy metal from the Clackmannanshire region.
NWOBHM-inspired heavy metal band from Ipswich, England, active since 2000. They channel the spirit of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal from Suffolk.
NWOBHM-inspired heavy metal band from Cheltenham, England, active since 2013. They deliver classic British heavy metal from the Cotswolds.
NWOBHM heavy metal band from Fareham in Hampshire, England. They channel the spirit of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal from the south coast.
NWOBHM heavy metal band from Sheffield, England, active since 1981. One of the original NWOBHM bands, Chinawite have been forging heavy metal from the Steel City for over four decades.
NWOBHM-inspired heavy metal band from Hatfield in Hertfordshire, England, active since 2000. They channel the spirit of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.
NWOBHM power-heavy metal band from Wolverhampton, England. Originally formed in the early 1980s, Cloven Hoof are legendary NWOBHM stalwarts who helped define the British heavy metal sound.
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