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Irrational Pull (Deluxe) (2020)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
Rarities 1991 - 2001 (2024)
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Featured Death Metal Album
The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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German power/thrash/heavy metal band from Brunswick, formed in 2024. They draw from three classic metal traditions for a versatile, hard-hitting sound.
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Thrash metal outfit from Tromsø, formed in 2016. Their compositions hit with the urgent intensity that defines the genre at its best: fast, tight, and unapologetically aggressive.
Spanish stoner metal band from Móstoles near Madrid, formed in 2011. They deliver witchy, bubbling stoner metal from the southern outskirts of the capital.
German heavy/stoner/southern metal band from Rhineland-Palatinate, formed in 2010. They blend heavy metal foundations with stoner and southern metal grooves for a sun-baked, riff-heavy sound.
German melodic death metal band from Warburg, active since 2000. With two-and-a-half decades of melodic death metal, they are one of the most seasoned acts in the Westphalian extreme metal scene.
German melodic death metal band from Regensburg, active since 2007. They bring nearly two decades of refined melodic death metal to the Bavarian underground.
Birmingham-based stoner/sludge metal outfit active since 2013, laying down thick, fuzz-caked riffs that move at a lumbering, hypnotic pace. Their sound occupies the hazy intersection where stoner metal's psychedelic warmth meets sludge's abrasive hostility.
Rostov-on-Don-based crossover thrash act active since 2018, smashing together thrash metal's riff-driven velocity with punk's stripped-down aggression and DIY ethos. Their short, sharp compositions hit with the impact of a circle pit in a phone booth.
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