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Joshua Dalviken is a solo symphonic and melodic death metal artist from England who composes, performs, records, and masters his work entirely alone. His album Overlord (2021, remastered 2023) features eight tracks of sweeping orchestral metal blending power, doom, and death metal elements across a 42-minute runtime.
Joao Miguel is a Portuguese guitarist and composer from Almada who creates instrumental progressive metal and math rock. His album STONESUN (2018) and EP Geometric Winters (2015) showcase technical guitar proficiency and compositional complexity, blending clean shred with progressive and thrash metal influences.
New London, Connecticut's Judas Cradle blend the melodic ambition of power metal with the aggressive edge of metalcore, carving out a sound that leans into both the anthemic and the punishing. Formed in 2014, they occupy the heavy end of the melodic metal spectrum.
Vicious Thrash Metal from San Antonio.
Judge Minos is a heavy metal band from Wallisellen, Switzerland, formed in 2017 and featuring clean to high-pitched vocals paired with mighty guitar riffs. Their debut album The Keeper Of Imbalance (2020) was produced at Valhalla Sound Studio and has been praised as a must-listen for fans of traditional heavy metal with a modern approach.
Auburn, Indiana thrash act Judgement formed in 2013 and have been keeping the genre's classic tenets alive in the rural Midwest — tight rhythms, aggressive riffing, and the kind of no-frills energy that defined the style's golden era.
Massachusetts crossover thrash outfit Judgement blend the speed and crunch of thrash metal with hardcore's raw directness, a combination the state's scene has always done well. Formed in 2013, they keep the crossover torch burning in New England.
Southampton, Massachusetts outfit Judgement Day have been combining thrash metal's momentum with the slow, grinding weight of doom since 2002 — a long-running marriage of opposing tempos that gives their sound an unsettling push-pull dynamic.
Little Rock, Arkansas act Judgemental draw from the overlapping traditions of heavy, thrash, and groove metal, forging a sound with the swagger of the South and the aggression of the thrash belt. Active since 2017 and firmly planted in the mid-American heavy metal underground.
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