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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Progressive death metal band from Camdenton, Missouri, formed in 2023, blending the technical brutality of death metal with the compositional ambition of progressive metal in the Ozarks-region underground.
Power and progressive metal band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, formed in 2020, combining the melodic grandeur and soaring vocals of power metal with the structural complexity of progressive metal. Their name invokes the mythological underworld river Styx, a common touchstone for epic metal imagery.
Molfetta's Subconscious Deceit merge metalcore, progressive, and thrash metal from the Bari coast since 2016. Their name of hidden treachery channels deceptive compositional shifts through Pugliese multi-genre sophistication.
Malmo's Subfret deliver progressive death metal from Sweden's Oresund coast since 2021. Their below-the-fret name channels the technical precision of guitar craftsmanship into compositions of musically ambitious extremity.
El Sobrante, California progressive/thrash metal band formed in 2016, weaving the technicality and ambition of progressive metal into a thrash-rooted foundation from the heart of the Bay Area.
Toledo, Ohio experimental and progressive death metal band formed in 2015, pushing the genre toward unconventional structures and sonic exploration while retaining death metal's core intensity.
Progressive death metal band from Reading, Pennsylvania, formed in 2025, combining the technicality and compositional scope of progressive metal with death metal's extreme foundation.
Monfalcone's Subtraction explore death and progressive metal from the Friulian shipbuilding city since 2012. Their mathematical name suits precise, structurally calculated compositions from the Adriatic industrial coast.
Subversion is a groove and progressive metal band from Asheville, North Carolina, formed in 2011, blending syncopated rhythmic heaviness with progressive song structures in the vein of the Appalachian metal underground.
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