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Actin' Up (2023)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Fertile Green (2012)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Power metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2024. They deliver melodic, anthemic power metal from the Greek capital.
Lake Charles, Louisiana thrash/death crossover band blending genre aggression with comedic and violent lyrical themes before calling it quits.
Boston progressive and power metal act bringing melodic grandeur and genre ambition to the classic power metal tradition, with swashbuckling imagery built into their identity.
Heavy metal band from Vicenza, Italy, active since 2013. Captain Kill delivers straightforward, riff-driven traditional metal from the Veneto region.
Jonesboro, Arkansas sludge metal project spending the 2010s working through themes of hatred and inner struggle in the isolationist tradition of heavy, feedback-soaked sludge before going silent.
Maine death metal outfit active in the mid-to-late 1990s on Rattle Snake Records, playing straightforward death metal before disbanding — distinct from the Minnesota thrash act of the same name.
Doom and drone metal project from Frankfurt, Germany, formed in 2014. They craft massive, slow-moving walls of sound that explore the heaviest extremes of low-tempo metal.
Melodic death metal band from Jyvaskyla, Finland, active since 2013. They craft melodic yet intense death metal from the Finnish lake district.
Gothic metal band from Duisburg, Germany, formed in 2020. They weave melancholic atmospheres and dark beauty into a heavy metal framework.
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