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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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De Doorn (2022)
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Halo (2017)
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Darkwave is an experimental, progressive, and thrash metal band from Budapest, Hungary, formed in 2020. The band push boundaries with their genre-crossing approach to progressive thrash.
Darkyo plays progressive black/death metal from Fryazino in Moscow Oblast, active since 2016 and pushing extreme metal into complex, boundary-defying territory. Their hybrid approach merges black metal's atmosphere with death metal's weight through a progressive structural lens.
DarMar is a progressive metal project originally from Zagreb, Croatia, now based in Fosnavag, Norway, formed in 2025. The project craft progressive metal compositions spanning geographical and stylistic boundaries.
Das Cabinet is an instrumental progressive thrash metal and djent band from Munich, Germany, founded in 2011. Their extended compositions, including the 2020 release "Dragon Tales," showcase technical virtuosity across psychedelic and progressive metal landscapes without vocals.
New Jersey progressive metal project Dassven channel the genre's appetite for intricacy and emotional depth, constructing layered compositions that reward close listening since their 2020 formation.
Bloomington, Indiana guitarist and composer David Brewster has been merging progressive metal's structural ambition with neoclassical shred technique since 2004, producing a body of work that rewards both the headphones-deep listener and the technically inclined.
Saratoga Springs, Utah multi-instrumentalist David Lyon weaves djent-driven rhythmic precision into a tapestry of progressive and symphonic metal, a sweeping and technically demanding sonic vision he's been developing since 2004.
David Stahl is a progressive metal/rock artist from Germany, active since 2021. His compositions explore the intersection of progressive metal's complexity and rock's accessibility.
Asheville, North Carolina's Dawn of Dismality bend progressive metal's expansive tendencies into the visceral frame of death metal, yielding something genuinely restless and unpredictable. Formed in 2021, they reflect their mountain city's growing reputation for adventurous heavy music.
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