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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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Demaniax is a death and progressive metal band from Genoa, Italy, formed in 2014. The project blends the heaviness of death metal with progressive metal's structural ambition from the Ligurian underground.
Demenseed is a progressive death metal band from Grenoble, France, active since 2010. They plant seeds of progressive death metal from the French Alps.
Sacramento's Dementia started out in the stoner and heavy metal tradition before pivoting toward nu-metal as their sound evolved over the years. Formed in 2013, they represent the California underground's tendency to absorb and recombine influences across metal's many stylistic eras.
Dementify is a Bulgarian metal act from Stara Zagora blending doom, progressive, and stoner metal into a brooding, heavyweight sound. Their 2020 release 'The Night' explores introspective themes through slow-burning, emotionally heavy compositions.
Portales, New Mexico's Demise of Gideon pursue progressive death metal from one of the more unexpected corners of the Southwest, where isolation tends to breed ambition. Since 2010 they've built complex, technically demanding music that pushes beyond the straightforward death metal template into longer song structures and more intricate compositional terrain.
Fort Collins, Colorado's Demise Unseen blend progressive and melodic death metal with a sophistication that speaks to the university city's musically literate underground. Since 2012, they've pushed their compositions toward longer arcs and more elaborate arrangements, bridging melodeath's emotional vocabulary with progressive metal's structural ambition.
Heavy Progressive Death Metal from Corpus Christi.
Little Rock's Demiurge operate in the slow and heavy lane, pursuing progressive doom metal with the patience and structural ambition the genre demands. Formed in 2017 in Arkansas — a state with a quietly tenacious metal underground — they build their compositions through deliberate weight and evolving arrangement rather than speed or shock.
Demon is a legendary NWOBHM/heavy metal/hard rock band from Leek, England, active since 2006, with a sound that evolved through progressive rock/AOR and back to heavy metal. They are iconic figures of the British heavy metal tradition.
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