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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
De Doorn (2022)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Halo (2017)
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Progressive death metal act from Bergen, Norway, active since 2013. Canvas Black blends technical complexity with death metal weight from Norway's second-largest city.
Statesboro, Georgia instrumental progressive metal band active since 1999, renowned for dense, technical compositions built entirely without vocals.
Progressive and doom metal act from the Danube city of Smederevo formed in 2017, merging the structural ambition of progressive metal with doom's crushing weight. Their sound balances cerebral complexity with the slow-burning power of heavy riffs.
Jacksonville progressive death metal act bringing technical ambition and melodic complexity to the Florida death metal tradition.
Boston progressive and power metal act bringing melodic grandeur and genre ambition to the classic power metal tradition, with swashbuckling imagery built into their identity.
Progressive death metal band from Mulheim an der Ruhr, Germany, formed in 2018. They merge technical complexity and dynamic songwriting with the heavy foundation of death metal.
Progressive heavy-thrash band from Turin, formed in 2016. Caravanseraj blends Balkan-influenced progressive elements with thrash aggression from Piedmont.
Progressive groove-thrash metal band from Le Havre, France, formed in 2021. They blend progressive complexity with heavy grooves and thrash aggression from the Norman port city.
Progressive melodic death metal project from Catanzaro, Calabria, formed in 2024. Cardaemort brings technical ambition to southern Italy's extreme metal scene.
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