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Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Unholy Savior (2015)
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Heavy metal band from Vigo, Spain, active since 2012. They deliver classic heavy metal from the Galician Atlantic port city.
Doom and stoner metal band from Finland, formed in 2024. They deliver thick, fuzz-laden doom grooves rooted in the stoner tradition.
Progressive heavy metal act from Como, Lombardy, formed in 2024. Cherry Wine brings a melodic, exploratory approach to Italian heavy metal.
Progressive thrash metal band from Dittelsheim-Hessloch in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, active since 2013. They merge complex progressive arrangements with the driving force of thrash.
Thrash metal band from Kassel, Germany, formed in 2019. They deliver aggressive, riff-heavy thrash from the heart of northern Hesse.
Austin noise rock. Ferocious, unhinged, and brutally loud since the early 90s. Reunited in 2014 after 15 years.
Black metal band from Bad Salzuflen, Germany, formed in 2021. Named after the ancient Germanic Cherusci tribe, they channel historical and pagan themes through raw black metal.
Austin's Cheshire deals in traditional heavy metal with a Texas swagger, delivering riff-forward music steeped in the genre's classic era. The band is a fixture of Austin's diverse and active metal underground.
Colorado's Cheshire Black pairs the grandiosity of symphonic metal with death metal's brutality, crafting dramatic, orchestrated compositions that balance melody with aggression. The project reaches for cinematic scale within extreme metal.
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