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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Denver's progressive death metal outfit Entropist weave intricate time signatures and dissonant harmonics through relentless brutality, continuing the Mile High City's reputation for technically adventurous extremity since 2021.
Lexington, Kentucky's Entropy mine the intersection of progressive and death metal, layering angular riffing and dynamic song structures over crushing rhythmic foundations since 2020.
Abilene's Entropy bring a progressive sensibility to West Texas heavy rock, balancing hard rock accessibility with the compositional ambition of prog metal since 2020.
Denver's Envinity have been blending symphonic grandeur with progressive metal's complexity since 2002, weaving orchestral textures and intricate arrangements into a sound that rewards patient listening.
Groove and progressive metal band from Le Mans, France formed in 2020. They blend technical progressive complexity with groove-driven heaviness.
Straddling the line between power metal and progressive metal, this Slovak actfrom Bratislava fuses polyrhythmic complexity balanced with emotive melodic passages into a cohesive whole. They've been at it since 2021, and uncompromising in their vision, they deliver exactly what their audience demands.
Progressive metal project from Santa Lucia de Tirajana in Gran Canaria, Spain, active since 2006. Their catalog includes the For Emotionless Ones series, showcasing intricate progressive metal songwriting from the Canary Islands.
Avant-garde black and progressive metal duo from Paris, France formed in 2019, featuring multi-instrumentalist Vague and vocalist Avitus. Their 2022 third album Necroses shape-shifts across 44 minutes of extreme metal, electronic, krautrock, and psychedelic influences.
Bristow, Virginia's Ephemeral Sun have been crafting layered, introspective progressive metal since 2005, drawing on complex song structures and dynamic shifts rooted in the mid-Atlantic prog tradition.
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