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Narrative (Instrumental) (2022)
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The Sensation (2023)
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Angst (2025)
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Santa Fe, New Mexico's Colossal Swan Dive brings sludge metal's tortured slowness to the high desert, a project that suits the stark, wide-open landscape of northern New Mexico with unexpected precision.
Portuguese black metal project formed in 2015. Colossal Void channels cavernous, expansive black metal.
Richmond, Virginia's Colossal Wreck plays death-infused thrash with the direct, no-nonsense approach typical of the Richmond scene — a city that consistently produces metal with more grit than polish.
Funeral doom metal band from Riihimaki, Finland, formed in 2015. They craft glacially slow, monumental doom steeped in Finnish darkness and despair.
Progressive death-groove act from Porto, active since 2012. Colosso has earned recognition for their technically ambitious, genre-crossing extreme metal from northern Portugal.
Vicksburg, Mississippi's Colossus fuses stoner metal's heavy grooves with traditional heavy metal's riff-forward clarity, a Southern outfit that grounds cosmic heaviness in the Mississippi Delta's deep-rooted musical tradition.
Black metal project from Tilburg, formed in 2022. Colossus Blade conjures epic black metal from a city renowned as a hub of Dutch extreme metal.
Groove-stoner-thrash act from Saint Petersburg, formed in 2020. Colossus Form merges heavy grooves with stoner fuzz and thrash aggression.
Atmospheric black metal project from the UK, active since 2012. They craft vast, immersive atmospheres within a black metal framework.
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