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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Ad Astra (2025)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Free the Witch EP (2018)
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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.
Kansas City's Colossus blends progressive metal's structural ambition with the raw impact of death metal, a Missouri act that navigates between technical complexity and visceral force without losing sight of either.
Chicago's Colossus deal in crushing brutal death metal, bringing the city's underground scene a punishing wall of blastbeats and guttural aggression. Their sound is dense and relentless, built for the pit.
Gainesville's Colossus wade through swamps of doom and sludge, wringing slow, heavy misery from every note. Their riffs lumber with the weight of oppressive Southern heat.
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.
Atmospheric black metal project from Rivne in northwestern Ukraine, active since 2015. Colotyphus delivers expansive, atmospheric black metal from the Volyn region.
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