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Actin' Up (2023)
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The Mountain Of Gold (2018)
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Playlist: The Very Best of Corrosion of Conformity (2010)
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When Empyrean Grace emerged in 2020 from Nijmegen, they brought with them a sound rooted in atmospheric black metal and black metal — all raw, lo-fi aggression channeled through kvlt aesthetics. Lo-fi authenticity lends their recordings a genuinely oppressive character.
Chicago progressive metal act Empyrean Sanctum have been building intricate, searching compositions since 2013, favoring dynamic complexity over the city's heavier underground traditions.
Oak Lawn's Empyrean Sky have spent two decades fusing progressive architecture into death metal's brutality, a Chicago-area outfit with enough compositional ambition to keep the riffs from going anywhere predictable.
Lake Forest's Empyrean Throne operate at the intersection of technical black and death metal, deploying precise, labyrinthine riff work that demands close attention from the Southern California underground.
Empyrean Vessel arrived in 2022 as a location-anonymous black metal project, letting the music speak entirely through atmosphere and aggression without geographic context to soften it.
New York's Empyreon charted a dramatic course from power metal origins toward melodic death metal and metalcore, an evolution spanning nearly two decades that reflects genuine stylistic ambition.
Symphonic metal act from Vantaa/Rekola, Finland that emerged in 2025. They bring orchestral grandeur to the Finnish metal scene.
Chicago-connected Wisconsin black metal act Empyreus have maintained a grimly focused vision since 2014, channeling the genre's traditional misanthropy with unwavering conviction.
Progressive metal act from Seville in Andalusia, Spain, with roots stretching back to 1996. Their nearly three-decade career makes them one of southern Spain's most enduring progressive metal projects.
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