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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Progressive metal act from Moscow, formed in 2017. Cortex Impulse explores intricate compositional structures from the Russian capital.
Progressive metal act from Sofia, Bulgaria, formed in 2016. They craft intricate compositions that blend technical precision with dynamic songwriting across shifting time signatures and moods.
Minneapolis progressive/thrash band that brings technical ambition and dynamic range to a genre often defined by speed alone. They are as comfortable with shifting time signatures as they are with full-throttle riffing.
Georgia progressive death/thrash band that works existential menace into technically sophisticated songwriting. Their music is expansive and unnerving, built on shifting riff patterns and relentless forward momentum.
Progressive thrash act from Zhytomyr in central Ukraine, formed in 2022. Cosmic Jaguar delivers technically ambitious thrash from the Polissia region.
Oswego, NY progressive death metal band that navigates complex song structures and shifting dynamics with a sure hand. Their music is both technically ambitious and genuinely heavy.
Genre-spanning extreme metal project from Brandenburg, Germany, formed in 2021. Cosmic Vision weave atmospheric black metal, death metal, melodic death metal, and progressive elements into an ambitious, multifaceted sound.
Progressive death metal band from Copenhagen, Denmark, emerging in 2025. They merge progressive complexity with death metal intensity.
Boston progressive death metal band that brings an expansive compositional approach to an already technically demanding genre. Their music is ambitious without sacrificing the heaviness that defines death metal at its core.
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