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Divine (2024)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Heavy metal band from Geneva, Switzerland, active since 2012. Their sound draws on the grand traditions of European heavy metal, delivering powerful riffs and commanding arrangements from the shores of Lake Geneva.
Headless Dawn is a grindcore/death metal band from Netherlands, active since 2022 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
New York's Headless Eyes occupy an unusually broad corner of extreme metal, blending death, thrash, and traditional heavy metal into a sound that refuses easy categorization. Formed in 2020, they draw on the full timeline of heavy music and synthesize it into something with its own jagged shape.
Power metal band from Huckeswagen, Germany, formed in 2021. Their anthemic sound delivers the soaring melodies and galloping rhythms that define the power metal tradition.
Death metal outfit from Warrington in Cheshire, active since 2018. Their malevolent name matches dark, crushing compositions emerging from the northwest English underground.
Cleveland black/thrash outfit Headless Rats channel the rabid, scabrous energy of first-wave black metal and Motorhead-indebted punk thrash into a sound that's filthy and fast in equal measure. Since 2014 they've been a reliable source of dangerous, unpolished extremity from the Rust Belt.
Iowa's Headless Torso have been carving up the death/thrash intersection since 2007, delivering Valley Junction's brand of surgical riff dismemberment with unrelenting aggression. Their sound sits squarely in the tradition of technically brutal death metal seasoned with thrash's kinetic drive.
Death thrash metal act from Jyväskylä in central Finland, active since 2010. Their morbid name matches a long-running commitment to aggressive Finnish extreme metal from the lakeland region.
Out of Summit, New Jersey, Headlock clench down on groove-locked riffs and thrash-fueled momentum, forging a sound built as much on neck-snapping rhythm as on raw velocity. Formed in 2013, they channel the bulldozing mid-tempo menace of classic groove metal without sacrificing the bite.
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