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AMENRA "Vanuytsel 7"" (2021)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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All the Cold has evolved from ambient black metal into progressive rock from Murmansk, Russia's largest Arctic city, since 2013. Their cold-embracing name naturally suits music born above the Arctic Circle, where winter darkness lasts months.
All Things Fallen explores progressive metal from Borås in Västergötland since 2019. Their comprehensive-collapse name drives compositions of elaborate structural complexity from this western Swedish textile-industry city.
Corpus Christi, Texas power metal and progressive project. The Nietzschean title channels philosophical weight through melodic metal from the Gulf Coast.
Charleston, West Virginia progressive metal project delivering thoughtful, expansive compositions from the Mountain State. Strangelove showcases ambitious songwriting that reaches beyond typical prog-metal conventions.
Bowerston, Ohio progressive metal solo artist. Ambitious prog from the rural heartland of Appalachian Ohio.
Alley explores progressive death metal from Krasnoyarsk since 2013. Over a decade from this major Yenisei River city in central Siberia, they have navigated intricate compositional pathways through death metal's most demanding territory.
Allmadda is a progressive thrash metal act from Rio de Janeiro whose debut album 'Majestic Sound of the Storm' (2015) weaves macabre keyboard textures through nine densely constructed tracks, some exceeding nine minutes, drawing on both progressive structure and thrash aggression in equal measure.
Florida progressive metal project. Technical ambition from the Sunshine State.
Alogia creates progressive and power metal from Smederevo on the Danube since 2020. Named after the psychological term for poverty of speech, their compositions compensate through elaborate musical expression from this historic fortress city.
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