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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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State Of Unrest (2023)
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Progressive and stoner metal band from Finland, formed in 2020, whose Finnish name means 'burning pharaoh.' They combine progressive complexity with stoner metal's heavy, psychedelic grooves.
Progressive metal and rock band from Stockholm, Sweden, formed in 2022, crafting revelatory progressive compositions from the Swedish capital. They bring fresh progressive vision to the Stockholm scene.
A 2025 German project merging progressive songwriting with the weight of death-doom, Palegrave crafts expansive compositions that balance crushing low-end with melodic ambition. Their debut material suggests a band drawn equally to Opeth's progressive grandeur and Novembers Doom's mournful heaviness.
Pallbearer is a doom metal band from Little Rock, Arkansas, formed in 2008 by guitarist Brett Campbell and bassist Joseph D. Rowland, later expanding to a four-piece. Their 2012 debut Sorrow and Extinction on Profound Lore Records earned immediate critical acclaim including Pitchfork's Best New Music designation, and their follow-up Foundations of Burden (2014) topped Decibel Magazine's year-end list. The band's subsequent releases — Heartless (2017), Forgotten Days (2020), and Mind Burns Alive (2024) — have progressively incorporated progressive rock and alternative textures alongside their foundational doom metal architecture.
Progressive and avant-garde death metal band from Finspang, Sweden, active since 1996, known as one of the most experimental acts in Swedish death metal history. Their boundary-pushing compositions blend death metal with surreal, avant-garde elements.
A progressive thrash outfit from Minden since 2013, Pandorium layers technical complexity over a foundation of Westphalian thrash aggression. Their compositions stretch beyond standard verse-chorus structures into more ambitious, multi-sectioned arrangements.
Edinboro, Pennsylvania's Pangaea have been pushing progressive death and thrash in extreme directions since 2007, fusing technical complexity with genuine heaviness without letting either quality dilute the other. Their northwest PA origin gives their sound a workmanlike intensity that counterbalances the genre's occasional tendency toward indulgence.
Progressive and thrash metal band from Caen, France, formed in 2014, layering progressive complexity over thrash metal aggression from Normandy. They bring technical ambition to the Norman metal scene.
Progressive thrash metal band from Novi Sad, Serbia, formed in 2024, combining progressive complexity with thrash metal aggression. They bring fresh, ambitious metal to the Vojvodina capital.
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