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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Saint Petersburg-based death metal, melodic death metal, and power metal act delivering punishing grooves interlocked with frenzied tremolo passages. Rooted in Russia's vast and intense metal underground, primal ferocity drives every note of their catalog.
Progressive metal and thrash band from Finland, active since 2012. They blend technical progressive complexity with thrash metal aggression.
The Italian city of Argenta (Ferrara) serves as headquarters for this power metal and progressive metal operation, whose arsenal includes Opeth-school dynamics married to modern progressive sensibility. Each release demonstrates a commitment to artistic evolution.
Progressive heavy metal act from Saarbrucken, Germany, building technically ambitious compositions since 2017. Their abbreviated name reflects a focus on experimentation within the heavy metal framework.
Progressive metal band from Budapest, Hungary formed in 2019. They deliver intricate progressive metal from the Hungarian capital.
Progressive metal act from Horsens, Denmark, crafting technically ambitious compositions since 2018. Their name, evoking displacement and cultural exile, adds emotional depth to their progressive metal complexity.
In existence since 2011, this Izmir Progressive Metal outfit delivers polyrhythmic complexity balanced with emotive melodic passages. Their place within Turkey's bridge between Eastern and Western metal traditions speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Progressive metal act from Bremen in northern Germany, formed in 2024, breaking the silence with technically ambitious compositions. Their Latin name, meaning "from silence," suggests a sound that emerges from stillness into complex, dynamic metal.
Part of Italy's underrated but thriving metal community, this act channels power metal and progressive metal with a focus on labyrinthine compositions spanning multiple movements and moods. Formed in 2010, based in Venice, every recording pushes a little further into uncharted sonic territory.
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