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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Missoula, Montana's Jolly Jane collide sludge metal's swampy downtuned drag with the loose, aggressive energy of crossover thrash — a scrappy, unpredictable combination that feels born from the Big Sky State's geographic isolation and do-it-yourself ethos.
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Jon Darkly is a metal and ambient musician from the Netherlands whose work spans the extremes from ambient jazz to black metal. His releases including Lygophilia and Ethereal Foundations demonstrate a willingness to explore the full spectrum of dark, heavy, and atmospheric music.
Jonas Sanders is a solo metal musician and producer based in Brussels, Belgium, working across death metal, metalcore, and thrash metal styles. His EP Lockdown (2020), recorded at Blackout Studio in Brussels with guitarist Adam Phillips, showcases his versatile approach to heavy instrumental music.
Jonas Tamas is a Hungarian instrumental guitarist and composer from Budapest who creates progressive rock and metal blending ambient, post-rock, and djent influences. His ambitious Four Seasons series, completed with Pt. 4: Winter (2022), tells stories through music across four conceptual EPs spanning six years of composition.
Jonava is a Lithuanian unblack/death metal project blending black and death metal instrumentation with Christian thematic content. Their five albums from Umbra & Heaven (2019) through Heaven Empyreal (2024) have drawn comparisons to Emperor and Extol, fusing brutal extreme metal with celestial melodic elements.
Joni Fred is a Finnish guitarist from Tampere who has released six solo albums of rock and metal melodic guitar instrumentals. Originally from Vaasa, his work showcases technical prowess across diverse heavy styles, from hard rock to progressive metal.
Jonkal is a guitar artist from Athens, Greece, born in 1989, creating metal instrumentals that showcase technical guitar proficiency. His release This Fight is My Own demonstrates his approach to heavy guitar-driven compositions within the Greek metal scene.
Jonny Vinter and the Gloominess is a Swedish rock and metal band from Nykoping, rocking since 1989 in a modern rock/metal/gothic rock-metal fusion. Their extensive discography explores the dark and light inside us through albums including It's Alive, All is Doom & Black, and The Dark Side of a Motel.
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