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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Chicago's Metalhead formed in 2020 and represent the pandemic-era wave of heavy metal acts that emerged from the city's underground, building their sound on the back of classic riff structures and hard-hitting songwriting. The band carries a straightforwardly old-school identity, embracing the genre's most direct traditions without embellishment.
Metalhead is a thrash metal band from the Quinta Normal district of Santiago, Chile, founded by drummer Mauricio Cortés and guitarist Felipe Silva with the aim of channeling fast and aggressive thrash sounds. The band appeared on the 2020 Chilean compilation From Chile with Thrash, contributing the track Esperando el Infierno, and records through Infernal South Productions.
Metalheadz is a heavy/thrash metal act from Verona, active since 2002. One of the veteran acts in the Veneto metal underground, the band delivers no-frills metal with the devotion their name declares.
Metalhorn is a heavy/power metal act from Zagreb, active since 2018. The band delivers epic, horn-heavy compositions rooted in the European power metal tradition.
A heavy metal act from Parma in Emilia-Romagna, Metalia has been crafting classic metal since 2021. The band brings traditional heavy metal to a city better known for its culinary heritage.
Formed in Montreal, Quebec in 2003, Metalian play traditional heavy metal and speed metal in the lineage of Judas Priest and Iron Maiden, earning comparisons to the Canadian Judas Priest within the country's new wave of classic metal. The band released a series of albums including Beyond the Wall (2022) and built a following on the strength of their devotion to straightforward, riff-driven songwriting. They remain one of the earlier Canadian bands to commit fully to reviving the classic heavy metal sound.
Metaliator is a thrash metal act from Warsaw, active since 2013. The band delivers aggressive, gladiatorial thrash from the Polish capital.
Metalicüs is a thrash metal band from Almería, Spain, formed in 2015. They channel aggressive thrash metal energy from the southeastern coast of Spain.
Metalium is a power/speed metal act from Hamburg, one of Germany's veteran metal bands dating back to 1990. The band has delivered decades of high-velocity, melodic metal from Germany's northern port city.
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