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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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Alienations explores progressive and thrash metal from Saint Petersburg since 2017. From Russia's northern capital on the Neva River, they channel feelings of estrangement through technically demanding compositions.
Alitor explores progressive thrash metal from Inđija in Vojvodina since 2013. Over a decade from this northern Serbian town between Belgrade and Novi Sad, they have refined technically demanding thrash compositions.
Alkera explores progressive metal from Istanbul since 2020. From the city that bridges Europe and Asia, they navigate complex compositional territory that reflects their transcontinental setting.
All Seeing Eyes merges heavy and progressive metal from Hertfordshire since 2020, their omniscient name reflecting compositions that survey the full breadth of the metal landscape. Their Home Counties origins feed a sound of panoramic ambition.
All the Cold has evolved from ambient black metal into progressive rock from Murmansk, Russia's largest Arctic city, since 2013. Their cold-embracing name naturally suits music born above the Arctic Circle, where winter darkness lasts months.
All Things Fallen explores progressive metal from Borås in Västergötland since 2019. Their comprehensive-collapse name drives compositions of elaborate structural complexity from this western Swedish textile-industry city.
Corpus Christi, Texas power metal and progressive project. The Nietzschean title channels philosophical weight through melodic metal from the Gulf Coast.
Charleston, West Virginia progressive metal project delivering thoughtful, expansive compositions from the Mountain State. Strangelove showcases ambitious songwriting that reaches beyond typical prog-metal conventions.
Bowerston, Ohio progressive metal solo artist. Ambitious prog from the rural heartland of Appalachian Ohio.
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