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Only Human is a Danish progressive metal band formed in 2022 by guitarist and vocalist Patrick Grønbæch Christensen and drummer Andreas Pröll, built around what they describe as existential progressive metal. Signed to Season of Mist in early 2026, the band released their debut album Planned Obsolescence in March of that year, a concept record examining technocracy, manufactured obsolescence, and digital erosion of human agency. Their sound draws from prog, djent, hard rock, and electronics into a dense and thematically driven whole.
San Francisco's Ontogeny approach technical and progressive death metal as an exercise in deliberate architecture, their riffs interlocking like molecular structures across dense, intellectually restless records. Nearly two decades in, they remain one of the Bay Area's most challenging underground voices.
Newark, Delaware's Open Wide, the Sky build progressive metal with an expansive, searching quality — compositions that stretch toward something just out of reach, layered with dynamic shifts and melodic tension that rewards close listening.
Heavy Progressive Death Metal / Deathcore from Houston.
Turin progressive power metal act formed in 2020, layering progressive complexity over power metal's energetic foundation. Their approach favors technical musicianship and compositional ambition within an accessible, melody-driven framework.
German progressive metal band from Osnabruck, crafting ambitious, multi-layered compositions since 2020. Their theatrical name channels the dramatic, operatic grandeur of their progressive approach.
Opera Diabolicus is a Swedish horror-themed metal project established in Gothenburg in the mid-2000s by David Grimore and Adrian de Crow, drawing from epic heavy metal, gothic doom, and symphonic progressive metal in the tradition of King Diamond and Therion. The band released three albums — a self-titled debut (2009), 1614 (2012), and Death on a Pale Horse (2021, via Season of Mist) — each built around theatrical narratives of vampires, witchcraft, and the black death, featuring guest contributions from musicians such as Mats Levén and Snowy Shaw. Their sound is ornate and deliberately cinematic, prioritizing atmosphere and narrative coherence over conventional metal structure.
Riga progressive/death metal act active since 2020, blending technical ambition with death metal's visceral impact. Latvia's capital has a modest but quality-over-quantity extreme metal output, and this act exemplifies that standard.
Zadar progressive/melodic death metal act from Croatia's Dalmatian coast, formed in 2021. Their Adriatic setting provides a scenic contrast to the intricate, technically demanding progressive melodeath they produce.
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