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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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Long Beach's Empathy carve progressive thrash metal with Southern California's technical precision and just enough melodic sophistication to separate them from pure aggression acts — cerebral without losing the crunch.
Progressive/thrash/doom metal act from Bavaria, Germany, formed in 2022, merging the cerebral complexity of progressive metal with thrash speed and doom heaviness. Their three-genre approach creates a dynamic, unpredictable listening experience.
Death metal, progressive metal, speed metal, and thrash band from Paris, France launched in 2024. They deliver a technically ambitious, multi-genre extreme metal assault from the French capital.
Philadelphia's Empress have spent over two decades weaving symphonic grandeur into progressive power metal, stacking orchestral sweep atop technically ambitious song structures that reward patient listeners.
The Italian city of Ravenna serves as headquarters for this progressive metal operation, whose arsenal includes Opeth-school dynamics married to modern progressive sensibility. Each release demonstrates a commitment to artistic evolution.
Chicago progressive metal act Empyrean Sanctum have been building intricate, searching compositions since 2013, favoring dynamic complexity over the city's heavier underground traditions.
Oak Lawn's Empyrean Sky have spent two decades fusing progressive architecture into death metal's brutality, a Chicago-area outfit with enough compositional ambition to keep the riffs from going anywhere predictable.
Progressive metal act from Seville in Andalusia, Spain, with roots stretching back to 1996. Their nearly three-decade career makes them one of southern Spain's most enduring progressive metal projects.
Drawing from Rimini's musical fabric, this Italian act forges Progressive Metal built on genre-bending ambition that refuses easy categorization. Each release demonstrates a commitment to artistic evolution.
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