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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Salt Lake City metalcore project. The political theory concept applied to heavy music from Utah's capital.
Santa Cruz, California thrash metal project that performs in full orc costumes, bringing Tolkien's villains to life on stage. One of the most entertainingly committed concept bands in American metal.
A Billion Limbs delivers death metal, deathcore, and groove metal from Southend-on-Sea since 2014, bringing a writhing mass of extremity to the Essex coast. Their grotesque name captures the overwhelming, many-armed assault of their sound.
A Blackened Sight is a metalcore band from Colmenar Viejo near Madrid, Spain, formed in 2012, blending metalcore, melodic death metal, and progressive metal influences. Their discography includes the self-titled release, Bodies on the Road, TiK ToK, and the 2018 single Kintsukuroi, named after the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold.
Mansfield, Connecticut death metal project. The funereal name captures the essence of extreme music from rural northeastern Connecticut.
A melodic death and groove metal five-piece from Duisburg, A Bond Between formed in early 2021 and released their debut EP Of Light & Suffering in October 2022. The band's lyrics confront inner conflict, depression, and societal pressure, delivered through a combination of guttural and clean vocals over melodic, groove-heavy riffing.
Melodic metalcore with soaring choruses from East Texas.
Saint Paul, Minnesota speed/thrash metal project. The rallying-cry name promises urgency and militancy from the Twin Cities.
A Cat in the Brain takes its name from Lucio Fulci's 1990 horror film, delivering death metal from Rome as of 2025. Their cinematic-horror identity channels the Italian capital's legacy of giallo and splatter cinema into extreme metal form.
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