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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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The Third Grade from Valencia craft progressive metal with the structured, evaluative precision their academic name suggests since 2012. Over a decade of output from Spain's third-largest city, they have built compositions of layered complexity.
Atlanta's The Universe Divide specialize in technical progressive metal built around shifting time signatures, interlocked riffing, and expansive structural ambition since 2011. They occupy a space between outright technicality and melodic coherence, making the complexity feel purposeful rather than purely academic.
Chicago's The Unshored weave black metal harshness, doom metal weight, and progressive metal architecture into a cohesive whole since forming in 2015. Their sound is searching and bleak, trading in long-form compositions that move through icy bleakness and crushing low-end in equal measure.
The Vicious Head Society is a progressive metal project from Ennis, Ireland, formed in 2017. They create ambitious, technically sophisticated progressive metal with complex arrangements and dynamic compositions.
The Water Witch from Yorkshire craft progressive black metal channeling the folklore of the water witch — a figure who divines hidden currents — since 2012. Over a decade of compositions from the Yorkshire moors has produced music as mysterious and powerful as the dowser's craft.
One of Connecticut's longer-running extreme acts, Bridgeport's The Way of All Flesh have been weaving progressive complexity into melodic death metal since 2005 — intricate arrangements and emotional dynamics that push far beyond the genre's standard templates.
The Wolf You Feed from Paris craft progressive metal exploring the Cherokee parable of the two wolves — one evil, one good — that battle within every person since 2020. Their philosophical name drives compositions that navigate moral complexity through technically ambitious metal from the French capital.
The World You Wanted from Munich merge progressive death metal's technical ambition with groove metal's rhythmic power, creating a dystopian commentary on the world humanity has built since 2020. Their socially conscious name frames compositions that alternate between intellectual complexity and visceral aggression.
Phoenix's The Writ have been active since 2011, navigating a space between progressive heavy metal and grunge-inflected hard rock, with expansive song structures that resist easy categorization. Their material rewards patient listeners drawn to melodic ambition and dynamic range over sheer aggression.
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