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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Milwaukee's Shadowcaster blend melodic power metal's soaring ambition with progressive metal's structural complexity, having launched that vision out of Wisconsin in 2022. Their music navigates shifting time signatures and dynamic builds while retaining the hook-forward melodic sensibility that defines the progressive power subgenre.
Out of Diamond Springs in the California Sierra Nevada foothills, Shadowkiller have been crafting progressive power metal since 2013 with an emphasis on technical ambition and expansive songwriting. Their music reaches for the soaring grandeur of European power metal while threading in the compositional complexity of the progressive side of the spectrum.
Shadowpath craft symphonic and progressive metal from Aarau, weaving orchestral arrangements and complex song structures into their heavy foundation. Their sound reaches for cinematic grandeur while maintaining the technical precision of progressive metal.
Izmir's Shadowplay pair progressive heavy and thrash metal from Turkey's Aegean metropolis since 2018. Their name referencing the interplay of light and dark, shared with the iconic Joy Division track, channels coastal Mediterranean creativity into technically ambitious compositions.
Meriden, Connecticut's Shallow Ground fuse progressive metal's structural ambition with thrash's velocity, producing music that shifts between intricate arrangements and full-throttle aggression since 2009. The band occupies a technical middle ground — too melodically adventurous for straight thrash, too aggressive for polished prog.
Philadelphia-based composer and multi-instrumentalist Shane Lentz works in the space where progressive black metal meets experimental solo construction, releasing atmospheric and technically demanding music under his own name since 2014. His work is characterized by unconventional song architecture and a willingness to push black metal's melodic and harmonic conventions well past genre norms.
Intricate Progressive Metal from Denton.
Shapeshift blend progressive and thrash metal from Nuremberg, combining cerebral compositional ambition with thrash's aggressive velocity. Their Franconian output bridges the gap between technical sophistication and raw energy.
Shapeshifter have been crafting progressive metal from the small Estonian town of Otepaa since 2001, making them one of the longest-running prog metal acts in the Baltic states. Their quarter-century of shape-shifting compositions demonstrates remarkable persistence in a small but dedicated scene.
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