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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Judas Priest is one of the most influential heavy metal bands in history, formed in Birmingham, England in 1969. Fronted by Rob Halford's iconic vocal range and driven by the twin guitar attack of Glenn Tipton and Richie Faulkner, they helped define the sound and visual aesthetic of heavy metal with genre-defining albums like British Steel, Screaming for Vengeance, and Painkiller.
Judder is a heavy metal band from Poland that delivers grinding, intense compositions with an industrial edge. Their punishing approach to metal channels the abrasive energy of the Polish underground through relentless heaviness.
Jude Milk is the solo project of Acid Age guitarist from Ireland, whose instrumental debut album Kithara (2016) fuses metal with flamenco and jazz influences. The six-track record spans death metal, speed metal, and thrash metal shredding alongside unexpected acoustic and jazz detours.
East Lansing, Michigan's Judea arrived in 2023 with a death metal and metalcore hybrid that pulls no punches — brutal riffing underpinned by the rhythmic precision metalcore demands. One of the newer acts in the Midwest's growing extreme metal underground.
Taking their name from the deepest circle of Dante's hell, Cary, North Carolina's Judecca have been crafting melodic death metal since 2016 — harmonized guitar leads and melody-forward songwriting set against a genuinely heavy death metal foundation.
Vicious Thrash Metal from San Antonio.
Judge Minos is a heavy metal band from Wallisellen, Switzerland, formed in 2017 and featuring clean to high-pitched vocals paired with mighty guitar riffs. Their debut album The Keeper Of Imbalance (2020) was produced at Valhalla Sound Studio and has been praised as a must-listen for fans of traditional heavy metal with a modern approach.
Auburn, Indiana thrash act Judgement formed in 2013 and have been keeping the genre's classic tenets alive in the rural Midwest — tight rhythms, aggressive riffing, and the kind of no-frills energy that defined the style's golden era.
Massachusetts crossover thrash outfit Judgement blend the speed and crunch of thrash metal with hardcore's raw directness, a combination the state's scene has always done well. Formed in 2013, they keep the crossover torch burning in New England.
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