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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Progressive deathcore act from Konin in Greater Poland, formed in 2024. Christian Woochuck blends technical ambition with crushing breakdowns.
Progressive metal act from Évora in the Alentejo region, formed in 2018. ChristShade crafts intricate progressive metal from one of Portugal's most historic cities.
Power and progressive metal band from Dusseldorf, Germany, formed in 2019. They blend the soaring melodies of power metal with progressive complexity and intricate arrangements.
Progressive metal band from Aabenraa in southern Jutland, Denmark, formed in 2015. They craft intricate, dynamic compositions from the Danish borderlands.
Utah progressive metal and djent act Chronicles builds its sound on polyrhythmic precision and tightly constructed modern metal arrangements. Their music belongs to the technically demanding, groove-anchored side of progressive metal.
Chronon is an instrumental progressive metal duo from Jaraguá do Sul, Santa Catarina, Brazil, formed around 2020 by guitarists David Lago and Christhopher Weinfurter. The project released its debut album "Music Field Theory" in November 2020, a digital release showcasing heavy riffs, intricate melodies, and shifting time signatures. Chronon operates as an independent act with no vocals, focusing entirely on instrumental composition.
Philadelphia technical death metal band Chronostasis combines progressive metal's complexity with death metal's intensity, building labyrinthine compositions that demand and reward close attention. Their music draws from the upper tier of tech-death's demanding tradition.
Barstow, California's Chrysalis blends gothic metal's melancholy atmosphere with progressive metal's structural ambition, creating a dark, cinematic sound. Their music pairs heavy instrumentation with an emotionally expressive, layered approach.
Columbus, Ohio death metal band Church keeps it appropriately grim and heavy, drawing on the Ohio underground's tradition of no-nonsense extreme metal. Their music prioritizes atmosphere and crushing heaviness in equal measure.
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