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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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Havenless is a progressive death metal band from Toulouse, France, active since 2012 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Havoc Mind is a melodic heavy/progressive metal band from Lisbon, Portugal, formed in 2015. They craft intricate progressive compositions with technical ambition.
Monument, Colorado's Havok bring progressive and technical ambitions to the thrash template, working in complex song structures and shifting time signatures beneath the aggression. It's the kind of cerebral thrash that rewards close listening while still delivering the requisite headbang quotient.
Hawake is a progressive metal band from Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, formed in 2018. The band blends intricate guitar work, keyboards, and dynamic vocals into an expansive progressive metal sound, and has performed as a support act for Angra in their hometown. Their debut release Duality of the Universe established them as a notable presence in the Brazilian progressive metal scene.
Jacksonville's Haxprocess represent the progressive wing of extreme metal, threading death metal brutality and thrash aggression through complex, technically demanding arrangements that betray a taste for conceptual ambition. For a band formed in 2022, they've arrived with a surprisingly developed sound.
HDK is a progressive death/thrash/groove metal band from Reuver, the Netherlands, formed in 2013. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
Monroe, Connecticut's He Was a God explore progressive metal's capacity for dramatic, emotionally charged songwriting, building lengthy, dynamic compositions from contrasts between quiet tension and surging heaviness. Formed in 2021, they're still early in their story but already ambitious in scope.
Headcrasher is a heavy/speed metal band from Cosenza, Italy, active since 2024 and delivering aggressive, riff-driven thrash with relentless intensity. The project channels the speed and fury of the genre.
Death thrash metal act from Jyväskylä in central Finland, active since 2010. Their morbid name matches a long-running commitment to aggressive Finnish extreme metal from the lakeland region.
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