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Unreasonable Doubt (2024)
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A Love To Kill For (2023)
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Obnoxious (2022)
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Sturtevant, Wisconsin's Crowning the Tyrant deal in groove metal built on down-tuned mid-tempo riffs and syncopated rhythms designed to get heads moving. Their meat-and-potatoes approach prioritizes pocket and punch over flashy complexity.
Heavy thrash band from Verbania on Lake Maggiore, active since 2014. Crownlake delivers sharp metal riffing from the scenic Piedmontese lakeside.
Symphonic gothic power metal band from Madrid, Spain, emerging in 2025. They create grand, orchestral metal with dramatic vocal performances.
Death-thrash band from Reggiolo in Emilia-Romagna, formed in 2018. Crownshard channels aggressive extreme metal from the Po Valley.
Crownshift are a Finnish metal supergroup formed in Helsinki in 2022, uniting members who previously served in Nightwish, Children of Bodom, Wintersun, and Finntroll — including guitarist Daniel Freyberg, drummer Heikki Saari, and bassist Jukka Koskinen, all alumni of Norther — with vocalist Tommy Tuovinen of MyGrain. Their self-titled debut album, released via Nuclear Blast in 2024, showcased a potent blend of melodic death metal intensity and power metal catchiness, generating immediate buzz as one of the year's most anticipated heavy metal releases.
Melodic and progressive death metal band originally from Judenburg, Austria, active since 2016. Their work including the concept EP 'Crimson Gaze' features rhythm-pulsating sound bodies, detailed melodies, and technically demanding instrumentation.
Progressive grindcore act from Malmö, active since 2004. Crowpath has spent two decades pushing grindcore into progressive territory from southern Sweden.
Crows of Agartha is a symphonic metal project from Buenos Aires, Argentina, formed in 2016 by vocalist and keyboardist Aldo Blanco alongside bassist Jesus Palavecino. The band released their album Inner Earth in 2019, drawing on fantasy, folk, and pagan themes woven through orchestrated metal arrangements.
Gothic metal band from Vienna, Austria, active since 2013, with roots going back to their 2009 debut 'Arise of the Berserk.' They weave dark, atmospheric gothic metal with a dramatic sensibility befitting their Viennese origins.
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