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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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Rising from Gothenburg's metal underground, this Swedish act forges Heavy Metal and Progressive Metal built on genre-bending ambition that refuses easy categorization. Each release demonstrates a commitment to artistic evolution.
Modern melodic death metal outfit from Upper Austria's Vöcklabruck/Schwanenstadt area, active since 2013. Their debut "Prediction Of The Past" showcases six tracks of melodic aggression ranging from blistering speed to somber, reflective passages.
Belgian progressive groove metal band from the Flemish Ardennes, blending groovy, aggressive riffs with a progressive sauce since 2011. Their 2023 concept album "Nihilosophy," produced with Tom MacLean of Haken fame, explores themes of death and meaninglessness across eleven orchestrally enhanced tracks.
The Swedish city of Malmö serves as headquarters for this progressive metal operation, whose arsenal includes Opeth-school dynamics married to modern progressive sensibility. Their approach balances aggression with genuine musical substance.
Active in Fredrikstad since 2025, this Norwegian act forges Power Metal and Progressive Metal built on genre-bending ambition that refuses easy categorization. Their approach balances aggression with genuine musical substance.
Italian progressive metal act, active since 2016 delivering Opeth-school dynamics married to modern progressive sensibility. Rooted in a scene steeped in operatic grandeur and crushing heaviness, each release demonstrates a commitment to artistic evolution.
Death, progressive, and thrash metal band from Thessaloniki, Greece active since 2006. Named after the mythological monster, they deliver technically proficient extreme metal from Greece's second city.
Los Angeles progressive metal outfit Echoes of Eternity have been building elaborate, technically refined compositions since 2019 in a city where ambition in heavy music rarely goes unrewarded.
Death, melodic death, metalcore, and progressive metal band from Jyvaskyla, Finland that emerged in 2025. They bring a technically ambitious multi-genre approach to the central Finnish metal scene.
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