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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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Progressive death metal act from Berlin, Germany, crafting technically ambitious extreme compositions since 2005. Their two-decade career reflects a deep commitment to pushing death metal's boundaries through progressive complexity.
Thrash/progressive metal act from Esbjerg on Denmark's North Sea coast, blending high-speed aggression with technical complexity since 2013. Their name, referring to perfect photographic memory, reflects a detailed, precise approach to progressive thrash.
Progressive metal band from Zagreb, Croatia active since 2008. They deliver intricate progressive metal from the Croatian capital.
Decidedly heavy and deliberately confrontational, this death metal and progressive metal act from Stockholm traffics in technical virtuosity in service of expansive, cinematic narratives. Since 2018, they've built a catalog that reflects the Gothenburg school's homeland.
Portland's Eight Bells weave progressive, doom, and sludge into something genuinely graceful — feminine vocals over cavernous weight, a combination that has made them one of the more distinctive acts in the Pacific Northwest's metal underground since 2013.
Tucson's Eight Legged Horse take their name from Odin's mythic steed Sleipnir and have been fusing Viking metal mythology with progressive metal composition since 1980 — one of the few acts in either genre with a history stretching back to the earliest days of heavy metal itself.
Progressive thrash metal band from Moscow, Russia active since 2015. Their Dutch-city name belies Russian origins, delivering thrash metal with progressive complexity from the Moscow metal underground.
Rochester, Michigan's Einheuser has been navigating the overlap between death and progressive metal since 2011, constructing dense, technically ambitious music that favors structural complexity over outright brutality.
Buffalo's Eira threads together blackened death and progressive metal into something genuinely restless since forming in 2022. The band's willingness to pull from multiple extreme subgenres at once keeps things unpredictable and sharp.
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