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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
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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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Heavy metal and progressive metal band from Metz/Thionville in Lorraine, France active since 2006. With nearly two decades of experience, they are a fixture of the northeastern French metal scene.
San Diego's Eternity Opens has been building progressive metal of unusual depth since 2016 — layered arrangements and restless song structures that reward careful listening.
New Jersey's Eternity Void has spent over two decades honing a progressive melodic death metal approach — intricate riffing, shifting dynamics, and a mature compositional voice since 2003.
Operating out of Rome, this Italian act forges Power Metal and Progressive Metal built on genre-bending ambition that refuses easy categorization. Each release demonstrates a commitment to artistic evolution.
Black metal, folk, industrial, and progressive metal project from Aubagne near Marseille, France launched in 2024. They fuse multiple genres into an eclectic extreme metal vision from Provence.
Livonia, Michigan's Ethereality have been twisting the DNA of death metal and deathcore with progressive ambition since 2007, building complex song architecture atop crushing heaviness. Over nearly two decades they have refined an approach that rewards both the headbanger and the attentive listener.
Jersey City's Ethereality bring a melodic and ambitious sensibility to progressive power metal, harnessing soaring vocals and intricate arrangements since 2007. Their sound sits at the intersection of European power metal grandeur and American progressive sophistication.
Edison, New Jersey's Etheria have been constructing dense, labyrinthine progressive metal since 2009, favoring long compositional arcs and complex time signatures over straightforward aggression. Their work rewards patient listeners willing to follow every twist.
New Jersey's Etherius craft progressive metal of considerable technical ambition, building towering compositions from interlocking guitar work and dynamic shifts since 2017. Their approach favors complexity without sacrificing momentum.
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