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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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No Cross No Crown (2018)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Athens-based symphonic metal act active since 2009, building their sound on lush orchestral arrangements, soaring vocals, and cinematic compositions. Their music draws from the European symphonic metal tradition of epic, larger-than-life heavy music.
Saint Paul's Bare Knuckle Brawl brings a street-level ferocity to thrash metal and crossover, a Twin Cities act drawing on the genre's punk-adjacent roots since forming in 2023.
Cardiff heavy metal band formed in 2019, featuring former Tigertailz vocalist Kim Hooker alongside fellow ex-Tigertailz members Cy and Andy Skinner. Their debut That Which Preys On The Dead captures the spirit of classic heavy metal and glam-inflected hard rock across ten tracks.
Erie, Pennsylvania's Baregrounds works the boundary between death metal and metalcore, a newly formed act whose 2025 formation signals fresh blood in the Great Lakes underground.
Thrash metal outfit from Cerkno, formed in 2011. Their compositions hit with the urgent intensity that defines the genre at its best: fast, tight, and unapologetically aggressive.
French groove/thrash metal band from Paris, formed in 2020. They deliver heavy groove-thrash from the French capital.
Santa Cruz sludge metal outfit Barf leans into the genre's grimy, low-tuned heaviness, adding a dose of West Coast irreverence through a name that doubles as a statement of intent.
Uncompromising death metal from Łódź, active since 2021. Their material trades in the genre's heaviest traditions: cavernous vocals, churning guitar work, and percussion that hits with tectonic force.
Groove metal outfit from Halmstad, formed in 2013. Their material trades in the satisfying crunch of heavy, rhythmically driven riffs that demand involuntary neck movement.
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