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Irrational Pull (2020)
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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Featured Metalcore Album
The Powerless Rise (2010)
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Heavy metal band from Zurich, Switzerland, forging traditional metal with an Alpine edge since 2019. Their name, meaning "Echo from the Aathal," roots their sound in the Swiss landscape while delivering classic heavy metal riffs.
Melodic death metal act from Mol, Belgium, formed in 2022, with releases "Before the Fall" and "Tribulation" showcasing their approach to the genre. Their sound carries the melodic sensibility and aggressive edge that defines the European melodic death metal tradition.
Miami's Echoes of a Nightmare has been fusing symphonic orchestration with death metal aggression and deathcore breakdowns since 2013 — a combination that plays to the city's theatrical, multilingual metal scene.
A product of Poland's titan-grade death metal scene, this Iwonicz-based death metal and doom metal act channels percussive blast-beat onslaughts and cavernous production. Active since 2018, low-tuned guitars and guttural vocals form the bedrock of their attack.
Death/doom metal band from Thessaloniki, Greece formed in 2019. They craft mournful, heavy death doom from northern Greece.
Los Angeles progressive metal outfit Echoes of Eternity have been building elaborate, technically refined compositions since 2019 in a city where ambition in heavy music rarely goes unrewarded.
An Albuquerque outfit pushing death metal into fractured, unpredictable territory — Echoes of Fallen weave mathcore rhythms and experimental structures through caustic riffing, active since 2015 and still refusing to stay in one lane.
Ambient and atmospheric black/doom metal project from Berlin, Germany, creating immersive, layered darkness since 2016. Named after the biblical valley of suffering, their sound traverses vast sonic landscapes of melancholy and dread.
A very young Portland band that launched in 2023 armed with a black/death/thrash collision — Echoes of Hell leans into the uglier, more chaotic edges of all three traditions.
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