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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Alexandria, Virginia's Encompass approach progressive metal as a vehicle for expansive, thoughtful songwriting — complex without being sterile, and heavy enough to keep the weight grounded. A DC-area act with a patient, architectural approach to composition.
Wilkesboro, North Carolina's End of All sit at the crossroads of death metal and deathcore, delivering the kind of heavy that's both technically demanding and brutally direct. A newer act already staking out their corner of the genre.
Salt Lake City's End of Man bring a reflective, cerebral approach to progressive metal, taking the genre's technical vocabulary and directing it toward something more introspective and searching. Active since 2018, they're part of Utah's quietly growing heavy music scene.
Progressive power and folk metal act from the historic town of Loket, Czech Republic, blending technical ambition with melodic folk elements since 2015. Their genre-crossing approach combines the precision of progressive metal with power metal's anthemic energy and folk's earthy warmth.
Part of Russia's sprawling, uncompromising metal landscape, this act channels progressive metal and thrash metal with a focus on labyrinthine compositions spanning multiple movements and moods. Formed in 2024, based in Moscow, the results are heavier and more inventive than the genre tag might suggest.
Grand Rapids power/progressive metal outfit blending soaring melodic vocals with technically ambitious arrangements since 2010. Their music balances the anthem-driven energy of classic power metal with the structural complexity of progressive songwriting.
Alingsås-based progressive metal act, active since 2020 delivering technical virtuosity in service of expansive, cinematic narratives. Rooted in Sweden's legendary metal infrastructure, their sound resists easy categorization, blending influences into something distinctly their own.
Gothic and progressive metal band from Lahti, Finland formed in 2023. They blend dark atmospherics with progressive complexity from southern Finland.
Wielding death metal, progressive metal, and thrash metal as their weapon, this Dutch outfit from Terneuzen has been refining their craft since 2017. Their sound hinges on odd-time signatures woven into surprisingly accessible songwriting, delivered with total devotion.
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