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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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AMENRA "Vanuytsel 7"" (2021)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Ambitious Progressive Metal out of Texas.
Raleigh's Enigmatic Path plots a course through progressive thrash metal, weaving shifting time signatures and intricate arrangements around the aggressive riff-forward energy that defines the genre.
Progressive metal band from Nantes, France active since 2011. They deliver sophisticated progressive metal from the Loire estuary.
When Enlightenment emerged in 2017 from London, they brought with them a sound rooted in progressive metal — all genre-bending ambition that refuses easy categorization. Their catalog reveals a band unafraid to explore the darker corners of heavy music.
Sarasota's Enlo approaches progressive and technical death metal with surgical ambition, crafting densely layered compositions that showcase Florida's tradition of technical extremity with their own melodic sensibility.
Linköping's metal underground has produced no shortage of heavy acts, and this heavy metal and progressive metal unit is among them — wielding labyrinthine compositions spanning multiple movements and moods. Their sound resists easy categorization, blending influences into something distinctly their own.
Heavy metal and progressive metal band from Lyon, France active since 1996. With nearly three decades of activity, they are veterans of the French progressive metal scene.
Cleveland, Tennessee's Enruined uses progressive death metal as a vehicle for structural complexity and emotional darkness, threading intricate arrangements through a core of heavy, rhythmically demanding brutality.
When Ensight emerged in 2011 from Pisa, they brought with them a sound rooted in progressive metal — all genre-bending ambition that refuses easy categorization. Their catalog reveals a band unafraid to explore the darker corners of heavy music.
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