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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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Sfumato blend doom with progressive metal from Darmstadt, taking their name from Leonardo da Vinci's painting technique of soft, hazy transitions between colors. This Renaissance art reference perfectly captures their approach: compositions that blur the boundaries between heaviness and atmospheric beauty.
Portland, Maine's Shabti have been developing a sophisticated strain of progressive death metal since 2010, weaving technical complexity and compositional ambition into material that still hits with the weight the genre demands. They sit in the upper tier of the Northeast's underground extreme scene.
Umea's Shade of Grey explore progressive melodic heavy metal from the northern university city since 2011. Their morally ambiguous name channels the complexity between absolutes into compositions of technical sophistication.
Atmospheric doom and progressive metal project from Jette in the Brussels-Capital Region, active since 2011. Their sound merges the crushing weight of doom metal with progressive structures, creating expansive compositions that explore dynamics between heaviness and atmosphere.
Intricate Progressive Metal from Austin.
Shadow of Desolation craft progressive death metal from the small southeastern Finnish municipality of Lemi, building complex compositions from the Karelian countryside. Formed in 2019, they bring desolate depth to the South Karelia scene.
Miami's Shadow Reborn combine progressive metal's structural complexity with gothic metal's emotional atmosphere, an unusual pairing that reflects both the ambition and the heat of their South Florida surroundings since 2015. Their approach to gothic prog leans into the dramatic without sacrificing the technical intricacy that defines the progressive side of the equation.
Portland, Oregon's Shadow Strategy Task Force have been working the intersection of progressive and traditional heavy metal since 2014, their name as deliberately odd as their approach — part conceptual project, part riff-forward metal band. The Pacific Northwest's tolerance for the unconventional gives them plenty of room to operate.
Based in Spokane, Washington, Shadow Thoughts have been channeling progressive metal's introspective complexity since 2020, working in a city that sits somewhat apart from the Pacific Northwest's coastal scenes and seems to foster a more internal, cerebral kind of heaviness. Their progressive-rock lean suggests a band as interested in atmosphere and texture as in sheer weight.
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