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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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Athens-based Omne Aeternum explores progressive metal's compositional ambitions with intricate arrangements and dynamic shifts between heavy and atmospheric passages. Their technical proficiency serves the songwriting rather than dominating it, resulting in compositions that are both cerebral and emotionally engaging.
Brussels-based progressive death metal band crafting richly layered compositions that flow from beautiful melodies to roaring aggression since 2014. Their 2024 release 'Panspermia' features intricate, psychedelic arrangements reimagined through a darker lens.
Progressive metal band from Jyväskylä, Finland, active since 2010. Their long-running project delivers technically ambitious progressive metal from central Finland.
Minsk progressive metal project active since 2019, crafting technically demanding compositions with a philosophical bent. Operating in a country with limited infrastructure for progressive metal, the project channels its ambitions primarily through digital releases.
Varazdin progressive/blackened death metal act from northern Croatia, active since 2020. Their fusion of progressive complexity with blackened death metal aggression represents the more ambitious end of the Croatian extreme metal spectrum.
Swiss progressive metal project launched in 2020, exploring complex compositional structures and unconventional song forms. The project takes an ambitious, genre-fluid approach to heavy music that resists easy categorization.
Bilbao progressive/power metal act formed in 2022, bringing technical ambition to the Basque Country's metal scene. Their compositions blend power metal's soaring energy with progressive structures and time-signature experimentation.
Kingston, New Hampshire's Onera weave melodic doom and progressive ambition into long-form compositions that breathe and shift like weather moving across the White Mountains. Their melodic progressive/doom approach rewards patient listeners willing to sit inside the slow unraveling.
Oni is a Canadian progressive metal band from Windsor, Ontario, formed in 2014 by frontman Jake Oni and signed to Metal Blade Records. Their 2016 debut Ironshore, produced by Josh Wilbur and featuring a guest appearance by Lamb of God vocalist Randy Blythe, established the band's blend of prog metal, metalcore, and djent informed by philosophical and science fiction concepts. Two subsequent albums followed — Loathing Light (2022) and The Silver Line (2023) — along with a series of EPs on the band's own Ironshore Records imprint.
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