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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
De Doorn (2022)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Halo (2017)
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Swedish symphonic progressive metal band from Gothenburg, formed in 2023. Based in Sweden's metal capital, their sound layers orchestral grandeur over technically intricate prog metal frameworks.
British progressive metal/shred artist from Oxford, active since 2019 and delivering technically virtuosic compositions. Their approach blends prog metal's complex structures with shred guitar's blazing precision.
Estonian progressive groove/thrash metal band from Tallinn, blending technical complexity with heavy grooves since 2010. Their approach merges prog-inflected structures with the rhythmic punch of groove and thrash metal.
Ghent-based progressive sludge metal band blending stoner rock, grunge, and progressive elements since 2017. Their lyrics explore space, solitude, and defiance as metaphors for melancholia, delivered through heavy riffing, proggy melodies, and grungy vocals.
Named for one of the world's most venomous scorpions, Melbourne, Florida's Leiurus inject progressive ambition into their blackened death metal, taking the genre into longer, more compositionally complex territory since forming in 2022. The venom is just as potent for being patient.
French progressive melodic death metal band from Paris, formed in 2022 and blending technical sophistication with melodic hooks. Their approach layers progressive complexity over melodic death metal's harmonic foundation.
Hungarian progressive death metal band from Szeged, crafting technically ambitious compositions since 2008. Named after Stanislaw Lem, their approach brings science-fiction-inspired vision to progressive death metal.
Worcester, Massachusetts's Leon Trout approach progressive metal with a songwriter's instinct, crafting elaborate instrumental and vocal narratives since 2016 that prioritize arc and mood over mere technicality. New England introspection with considerable weight behind it.
Named for the Slavic forest spirit, Phoenix's Leshen blend technical progressive structures with thrash's kinetic drive — music that stalks through the desert heat with ancient menace.
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