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Narrative (Instrumental) (2022)
Featured AOR Album
The Sensation (2023)
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Angst (2025)
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Thrash metal band from Syke, Germany, active since 2013. They channel relentless, riff-driven thrash from the suburbs south of Bremen.
Groove metal band from Pettenbach, Austria, formed in 2020. They forge heavy, rhythmic grooves with crushing riffs, drawing from the power of bands like Pantera and Lamb of God.
German metalcore band formed in 2018. They deliver heavy breakdowns and melodic passages rooted in the modern metalcore tradition.
Virginia's Cleaved deal in straightforward death/thrash metal that favors energy and aggression over technical complexity. Rooted in the mid-Atlantic underground, they keep the riffs heavy and the tempo unrelenting.
Blackened brutal death metal act from Piuro in Sondrio province, formed in 2019. Cleaver delivers savage extremity from a tiny Alpine village in the Lombardy mountains.
Death metal band from Kastoria in western Macedonia, Greece, formed in 2021. They deliver death metal from the lakeside Byzantine city.
Jackson, MS southern metal act Cledus Snow bring a swampy, beer-soaked groove to the Deep South metal tradition. Their music is rooted in heavy blues-inflected riffs and a no-pretense attitude toward the genre.
Flint, MI stoner metal outfit Cleen draw on the industrial ruin of their hometown to fuel thick, fuzz-laden riffs and hazy heavy grooves. Their sound sits comfortably in the tradition of midwest stoner metal, bleak and heavy in equal measure.
Doom and sludge metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2018. Named after a Game of Thrones character, they deliver crushing doom-sludge from the French capital.
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