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Jacobs Moor is a progressive power/thrash metal band from Vienna, Austria, formed in 2014. They have released several albums including Anthems For The Apocalypse and All That Starts, blending technical proficiency with aggressive thrash energy and progressive structures.
York, Pennsylvania's Jade Mountain arrived in 2022 bearing a dense, suffocating sound that merges blackened atmospherics with the crushing low-end of sludge and the despairing weight of doom — bleak, patient, and unrelenting.
Jaded Heart is a melodic metal and hard rock band from Germany with a career spanning multiple decades of the European melodic metal scene. Known for their polished songwriting and soaring vocal performances, they have built a loyal following through consistent albums blending power metal melodies with hard rock accessibility.
Jaded Star is a symphonic/progressive metal band from Athens, Greece, founded by Maxi Nil, formerly of Visions of Atlantis. Their albums Memories From The Future (2015), mixed by Fredrik Nordstrom at Fredman Studios, and Realign (2020) have earned them European tour slots alongside Epica, Moonspell, and Delain.
Jadira is a metal band from Tallinn, Estonia, whose releases including Desires and The Mason showcase their approach to heavy music from the Baltic underground. The Estonian metal scene's unique character infuses their compositions with a cold, atmospheric quality distinct from their Scandinavian neighbors.
Jaern is a doom metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, established in 2019 and featuring a four-piece lineup including guitarist/vocalist Marko Brostrom. Their self-titled debut EP (2020) delivers four tracks of fuzzy, heavy doom with psychedelic and sludge elements, with the track Miasma earning particular praise from the Swedish underground doom community.
Formed in Colorado Springs in 1981, Jag Panzer are one of the longest-running American power metal acts, having helped establish the U.S. power metal scene alongside their debut Ample Destruction in 1984. The band's catalog includes the ambitious 2000 concept album Thane to the Throne, a full adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, and extends through The Deviant Chord (2017) on SPV/Steamhammer, maintaining vocalist Harry Conklin as a central constant across decades of activity.
Jagannah was an experimental comedy/psychedelic doom band from Modena, Italy, active from 2006 to 2011 and self-described as having come from space, played for space, and gone to space. Their album Aneha Hi How (2017) features nine tracks blending Melvins-influenced doom with surreal humor and absurdist performance.
Jagannath is a metal band from the Netherlands that channels heavy, aggressive compositions through a modern European lens. Their approach to the genre blends multiple metal subgenres into a crushing, dynamic sound within the Dutch metal underground.
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