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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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Roman progressive metal band with a legacy spanning over two decades, featuring Diego Marchesi on vocals alongside Diego Cafolla and Ivan Nastasi on guitars. Their 2024 album Hopium on CD and limited vinyl fuses profound introspection with melodic intensity, continuing a catalog of eclectic progressive rock and metal.
Progressive/symphonic metal band from The Hague, active since 2020 and blending progressive metal's technical ambition with symphonic elements. Their nature-inspired name reflects an approach that balances beauty with heaviness.
Multi-awarded Greek guitar shredder and session musician from Trikala, active since 2019 and spanning progressive, neoclassical metal, and shred guitar territory. His releases range from heavy metal virtuosity to musique concrete, including 2026's The Empyrean Heaven inspired by Gustave Dore's illustration of Dante's Paradiso.
Named for the legendary sunken Russian city, Denver's Kitezh has been crafting melodic and progressive death metal since 2011. Their music balances technical ambition with melodic depth, weaving elaborate song structures through the mile-high city's fertile extreme metal scene.
Progressive/melodic death metal and shred band from Bordeaux, active since 2012 and delivering technically virtuosic compositions. Their over-a-decade output combines progressive ambition with fretboard pyrotechnics.
Overland Park, Kansas outfit Klehma has been threading death, thrash, and progressive metal together since 2012. A technically ambitious band from the heart of the American Midwest, they favor complexity and dynamic range over straight-line aggression.
Tarrytown, New York progressive metal band Klepsydra formed in 2016 with an ear for labyrinthine song structures and expansive dynamics. Sitting in the shadow of New York City, their work reflects the ambitious, searching quality of the region's prog-minded metal underground.
Part of Italy's underrated but thriving metal community, this act channels black metal and progressive metal with a focus on labyrinthine compositions spanning multiple movements and moods. Formed in 2021, based in Rome, every recording pushes a little further into uncharted sonic territory.
Lexington, Kentucky's Klexos has pursued progressive death metal since 2017, merging technical intensity with a compositional depth that sets them apart in the Bluegrass State underground. Their music rewards patient listeners willing to follow its twisting corridors to the end.
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