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To Take Your Place (2022)
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Seventh Rum of a Seventh Rum (2022)
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A Stare Bound in Stone (2018)
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Melodic death metal solo artist from Hesse, Germany, active since 2016. He crafts melodic yet aggressive death metal with a focus on dynamic songwriting.
Experimental progressive metal solo artist from Athens, Greece, active since 2007. He crafts intricate, boundary-pushing progressive metal.
California thrash solo project Chris Violence delivers old-school aggression in the Bay Area tradition, keeping the thrash flame lit with no-frills speed and attitude. Underground and unapologetic.
Waco-based progressive metal project Chris White explores intricate, thoughtful heavy music from Central Texas with a focus on melodic complexity and technical composition. Part of a quietly active Lone Star prog scene.
Power metal band from Turku, Finland, emerging in 2025. They deliver melodic, anthemic power metal from Finland's oldest city.
Death-doom metal band from Ptolemaida in western Macedonia, Greece, formed in 2023. They merge death metal aggression with crushing doom from the Greek mining region.
Alabama death metal act Christ deal in blunt, straightforward brutality from the American South, a region with its own tradition of extreme music running underneath the mainstream. Heavy and unadorned.
Polish melodic black metal pioneers from Morąg and later Olsztyn, with roots stretching back to 1990. Christ Agony is one of Poland's oldest and most respected black metal acts, with over three decades of blasphemous output.
Scranton, Pennsylvania sludge act Christ Chopper drag their heaviness through the working-class industrial wasteland of northeastern Pennsylvania. Thick, slow, and corrosive.
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