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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Ad Astra (2025)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Serpent & Spirit (2021)
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Portland oddity blending power metal bombast with doom weight and grindcore aggression in ways that shouldn't work but somehow do. Their catalog is unpredictable and deliberately genre-defiant.
Power and heavy metal band from Saint-Lo in Normandy, France, active since 2012. They deliver melodic, anthemic metal from the Norman bocage.
Power-thrash metal band from Cologne, Germany, formed in 2024. They blend the melodic energy of power metal with thrash metal's aggressive speed from the Rhineland.
Power metal band from Veitshochheim near Wurzburg, Germany, formed in 2019. They craft epic, melodic power metal with soaring vocals from the Franconian countryside.
Baltimore duo fusing the raw filth of crust punk with sludge metal's lumbering brutality. Their sound is abrasive and uncompromising, carved out of the Chesapeake DIY underground.
Houston act colliding death metal ferocity with grinding velocity and unexpected power metal dynamics. An unlikely but punishing combination drawn from the deep well of Houston's extreme music scene.
Hudson, Massachusetts band blending power metal's melodic ambition with thrash's kinetic aggression. Crawlspace channels the dual-guitar attack and speed of the classic East Coast thrash era.
Pittsburgh power and progressive metal band building epic, melodically rich compositions with technical sophistication. Creature of Habit reflects the Steel City's tradition of craftsmanship and heaviness working in tandem.
Dallas death metal with a crushing old-school sound. Multiple releases on MNRK Heavy.
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