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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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Out of Philadelphia, Returner emerged in 2024 blending the surgical riff construction of progressive death metal with the adrenaline-soaked tempos of thrash. Their approach is relentless but not brainless — technical passages weave through aggressive breakdowns, giving the music a cerebral tension that sets them apart from more straightforward death-thrash acts. Still freshly formed, they represent the Philly underground's hunger for complexity without sacrificing ferocity.
Baltimore's Revelation have long stood as one of the more singular voices in the American doom and progressive metal underground, weaving lengthy, emotionally loaded compositions that recall the introspection of Candlemass and the exploratory spirit of early Fates Warning. Formed in 2026 and rooted in the doom/prog intersection, their music is patient and heavy in equal measure — Maryland gloom pressed into slow, searching song structures that breathe and shift. They're an important name in the underground heavy canon.
Progressive metal band from Lisbon, Portugal, formed in 2020. Their approach delivers technically ambitious compositions from the Portuguese capital.
Progressive/melodic death metal band from London, formed in 2020. Their approach blends progressive complexity with melodic death metal's emotional intensity from the UK capital.
Power/progressive metal band from Purmerend, the Netherlands, formed in 2025. Their approach combines anthemic power metal with progressive complexity from the North Holland town.
Progressive metal/rock band from Ostrołęka, Poland, formed in 2026. Their approach delivers technically ambitious compositions from the northeastern Polish town.
Progressive death metal band from Nizhny Tagil, Russia, active since 2016. Their approach pushes death metal into progressive territory from the Ural industrial city.
Progressive death/thrash metal band from Athens, Greece, active since 2009. Their politically charged name accompanies technically complex extreme metal across more than fifteen years.
Progressive power metal band from Athens, Greece, active since 2018. Named after the precious metal, their approach delivers technically polished power metal with progressive complexity.
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