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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
Featured Groove Metal Album
Evidence (2023)
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Make It Rain / On the Other Side of Tonight (2024)
05/20 @ Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom, Hampton Beach
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Progressive metal band from Paris, France active since 2010. They deliver technically ambitious progressive metal from the French capital.
Heavy metal and progressive metal band from Brest in Brittany, France, active since 2013. They bring melodic, complex metal from the westernmost city in France.
Intricate Progressive Metal out of Texas.
A keyboard virtuoso operating out of El Dorado Hills, California, Erik Norlander has spent nearly three decades crafting cinematic progressive metal that puts the synthesizer front and center alongside hard-edged guitars. His work sits at the intersection of symphonic grandeur and technical precision, drawing equally from classic prog and neoclassical tradition.
Wheat Ridge, Colorado's Erosion Code merges neoclassical shred technique with the structural ambition of progressive metal, building instrumental and vocal compositions that showcase technical guitar work within a larger architectural vision. Formed in 2018, the band treats precision and imagination as equally essential values.
Progressive metal band from Joensuu, Finland formed in 2022. They explore complex, technically ambitious progressive metal from eastern Finland.
On the warpath since 2016, this Turin Progressive Metal and Symphonic Metal outfit delivers polyrhythmic complexity balanced with emotive melodic passages. Their place within Italy's underrated but thriving metal community speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Seattle's Errluum fuses progressive metal's compositional ambition with power metal's anthemic drive, balancing technical complexity with the kind of melodic momentum that makes long-form songs feel earned rather than indulgent. Formed in 2019, the band treats the album format as a vehicle for genuinely epic storytelling.
Progressive thrash metal act from Hamburg, Germany, pushing the boundaries of thrash through technical complexity since 2018. Their name describes the explosive, systemic decay that drives their intricate, high-energy compositions.
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