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East Brunswick, New Jersey's Doss has been navigating an ambitious stylistic intersection since 2014, blending the melodic sweep of Gothenburg-influenced death metal with the technical complexity of prog and the sheer brutality of deathcore. New Jersey's underground has always punched above its weight, and Doss exemplifies why — bands from this corridor take sonic range seriously, refusing to be pinned to a single aesthetic. The result is music that shifts registers with confidence, equally capable of a crushing chug and an arching melodic passage.
Athens, Georgia's Double Ferrari has been crafting progressive heavy metal since 2017 in one of the American South's most storied college music towns, bringing their own angular take to a city better known for indie and alternative. Their sound emphasizes the heavy end of progressive — not the noodling, ethereal variety, but music that keeps its bones in traditional metal while building structures complex enough to reward close listening. The Athens scene's inherent experimentalism seems to have worked its way into their DNA in the best possible way.
Richmond, Virginia's Doubtfire has been hybridizing blackened sludge and progressive metal since 2015, working in a city whose heavy music community has long favored the ambitious and the abrasive in equal measure. The band layers the suffocating low-end mass of sludge metal against black metal's caustic atmosphere, then unsettles both with progressive structures that deny easy resolution. Richmond's status as a Southern post-industrial hub gives their sound an almost geographical texture — worn down and spiky at once.
Doukha is a progressive death metal band from Metz, France, formed in 2017. They deliver ambitious progressive death metal from Lorraine.
Drac Attack! is a progressive/power metal band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2021. They bring high-energy power metal with progressive flair and a vampiric edge.
Drace XII is a symphonic power metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, blending power and progressive metal with orchestral arrangements and influences from Visual Kei. The band released their debut album "Supreme Legacy" in 2016, produced by Edu Falaschi (ex-Angra), followed by "The 12th Ceremony" in 2018.
Heavy Progressive Rock (early); Death Metal, Ambient / Neoclassical (later) from Fort Worth.
Dragoons is a power/progressive metal band from Cascavel, Paraná, Brazil, formed in 2017. The band evolved from earlier melodic heavy metal roots into a heavier, more complex power metal direction, drawing on the technical and compositional traditions of the Brazilian progressive metal scene.
Intricate Progressive Metal from Austin.
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