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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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De Doorn (2022)
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Halo (2017)
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Sludge metal/progressive rock project from Sweden emerging in 2024. W.Y.X.X. fuses the heaviness of sludge with progressive rock's adventurous structures.
Progressive death metal band from Helsinki, Finland formed in 2019. Walking Dead Suicide pushes death metal beyond conventional boundaries with progressive arrangements and complex songwriting from the Finnish capital.
Power and progressive metal band from Fabriano, Italy active since 2015. Walls of Babylon weaves intricate progressive arrangements into power metal's epic framework from the Marche region.
Alternative and progressive metal band from Helsinki, Finland known as "The Crazy Fins" and signed to Napalm Records. Their distinctive style combines speedy rhythms with metal riffs, melodic hooks, and even rap elements, creating a genre-defying sound that has made them one of Finland's most unique metal acts.
Denver's WarCrown formed in 2021 with an approach to progressive doom metal that emphasizes space and architecture as much as weight. Their songs move through extended passages of shifting dynamics, pairing the patience of doom with the structural ambition of progressive metal. In a city already saturated with excellent heavy music, they carve out a distinct identity through careful, deliberate composition.
Progressive/groove metal band from Moscow, Russia active since 2014. Warmoth blends progressive complexity with groove metal's rhythmic punch from the Russian capital.
Warrel Dane launched his solo career in 2008 with Praises to the War Machine on Century Media Records, stepping outside his primary role as vocalist of Seattle progressive metal band Nevermore to explore a heavier and more personal album-oriented direction with production by Peter Wichers of Soilwork. At the time of his death from a heart attack in São Paulo, Brazil on December 13, 2017, he had been working on a second solo album titled Shadow Work, fragments of which were later assembled and released posthumously. Dane is widely regarded as one of the most distinctive voices in progressive heavy metal.
Progressive heavy metal band from Kiel, Germany active since 2017. Warstone pushes beyond traditional heavy metal boundaries with progressive arrangements and ambitious songwriting from northern Germany.
Progressive and melodic death metal band from Veldegem, Belgium formed in 2020. Wasteland fuses technical proficiency with melodic sensibility, weaving intricate song structures through a death metal foundation.
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