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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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U.N.IT is a Swedish progressive metal project active since 2008, exploring technically ambitious compositions and expansive song structures. The project operates within Sweden's deep tradition of progressive and technically skilled metal.
Parker, Colorado's Ubiquitous have been weaving together progressive structures and melodic death metal savagery since 2015, threading technical ambition through every riff. Their approach to progressive melodic death metal rewards patient listeners with songs that shift and breathe rather than simply bludgeon.
Power and progressive metal band from Florence, Italy, active since 2019. Their sound blends power metal's melodic grandeur with progressive metal's structural complexity from the Renaissance city.
Progressive metal band from Brazil featuring vocalist and guitarist Mauricio Bortoloto, bassist Pedro Ghoneim, and drummer Matheus Vazquez. Their debut album Memory was released in 2022 and includes eight tracks, among them the single Carnival, which adapts the Brazilian frevo rhythm into a heavy metal arrangement.
Progressive black metal project from Bialystok in northeastern Poland, active since 2022. Their approach pushes black metal's boundaries through progressive structures and unconventional compositions.
Minnesota's Ultimate Dai Satan have been warping progressive metal and sludge into something ponderously heavy and structurally unpredictable since 2020. Their music moves like a slow-motion collapse — dense, deliberate, and strangely compelling.
Progressive sludge and post-metal band from Fiskum, Norway, active since 2023. Their sound combines the crushing weight of sludge with post-metal's atmospheric dynamics and progressive structures.
Experimental doom metal band from Oulu, Finland, whose 2005 debut Gnoia delivered 60 minutes of avant-garde funeral doom mastered at Helsinki's Finnvox Studios. Their sound combines experimental elements, flute, and keyboards within a progressive doom framework, originally released through Firedoom Music.
Unadorned is a progressive doom/death metal project from Ankara, Turkey, founded in 2025 and blending blackened melodic death metal with progressive structures under the banner of 'mystic brutality.' The project features Zachary Alder on vocals, guitar, and bass with Alister Reed on drums.
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