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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Progressive metal band from Hanover, Germany, formed in 2020. They craft intricate, dynamic compositions with technical sophistication from the Lower Saxon capital.
Chimaera was a progressive metal band from Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The band is documented on Encyclopaedia Metallum and has since split up, leaving behind a small catalog of progressive metal material released during their active years.
Progressive groove-heavy metal band from Manchester, England, emerging in 2025. They blend progressive complexity with heavy grooves.
Punishing Progressive Death Metal from Houston.
Milwaukee's Cholernik fuse black metal darkness with progressive ambition, building elaborate compositions that shift between cold atmosphere and technical complexity. A forward-thinking act from the Wisconsin underground.
Progressive groove metal act from Innlandet county in central Norway, formed in 2017. Chopworm delivers technically-inclined heavy grooves from the Norwegian interior.
Progressive black metal act from Chișinău, Moldova, active since 2013. Chordewa blends atmospheric black metal with progressive ambition from the Eastern European nation.
Progressive sludge metal band from Vienna, founded in 2017, combining guttural and clean vocals over heavy, slow-moving riffage with blastbeats and atmospheric passages. Their 2023 EP 'Stray Dogs' earned praise from No Clean Singing and The Obelisk for its refusal to be confined to a single aesthetic.
Baltimore's Chowder bring a progressive sensibility to doom metal, stretching compositions into exploratory territory while never losing the essential heaviness. An unusual name for a genuinely heavy band.
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