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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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Lakeland, FL's Castaway draw on both straightforward death metal and its melodic Scandinavian derivatives, building songs around tightly wound riff progressions and moments of atmospheric lead work.
New York's Castevet bring a post-hardcore edge to black metal's dissonant framework, threading progressive song structures through bleak, abrasive soundscapes that reward patient listening.
Progressive power metal project from Bålsta near Stockholm, formed in 2026. Castillion brings fresh melodic ambition to the Swedish power metal scene.
Michigan's Castles in Spain weave power metal's melodic grandeur into a progressive framework, favoring elaborate song structures and dynamic shifts over pure speed or blunt aggression.
Progressive sludge metal act from Vale de Cambra in northern Portugal, active since 2008. Catacombe has spent nearly two decades merging progressive complexity with sludge weight from the Aveiro district.
Progressive death metal act from Budapest, formed in 2019. Catalogist combines technical complexity with death metal weight, exploring intricate compositional structures.
Akron, Ohio metalcore/thrash hybrid combining the breakdown-driven aggression of metalcore with the driving riff velocity of thrash.
Catamount explores progressive metal territory with complex song structures, shifting time signatures, and interlocking guitar and bass arrangements that reflect Chicago's fertile prog and jazz-influenced music scene. Their compositions reward close listening, favoring atmosphere and technicality over brute force.
Progressive thrash act from Nakhodka, a port city in Russia's Far East near Vladivostok, formed in 2017. Catapultah delivers technically-ambitious thrash from the Pacific coast.
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