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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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With more than two decades behind them, Los Angeles's Oceans of Night have turned progressive rock and metal's expansive vocabulary into something both technically impressive and emotionally resonant. Their longevity speaks to a dedication to craft over trend.
Houston progressive doom/death metal with powerful clean vocals. Emotionally devastating heaviness.
Spanish folk metal band from Madrid, weaving Iberian folk traditions into metal since 2014. Named after the Celtic-Iberian deity, their approach channels ancient peninsula mythology through folk metal.
Czech power/speed metal band from Znojmo, delivering high-velocity anthems since 2019. Their feline name channels the predatory speed and agility of their power/speed metal approach.
Gothenburg progressive doom metal act formed in 2020, applying progressive structures to doom metal's crushing weight. Emerging from a city synonymous with melodic death metal, their choice of progressive doom represents a deliberate departure from regional convention.
Sludge/doom metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, active since 2014. Their occult-tinged name accompanies crushing sludge and doom from the Swedish capital.
Black metal project from Santiago, Chile, whose name combines the Greek roots for "crowd" and "aversion" as a statement against collective conformity. The duo of P.B. and K. have released three records — Vendémiaire (2021), Thermidor (2022), and ...In Terrorem (2023) — crafting philosophically charged black metal shaped by Nietzschean and counter-Enlightenment themes.
Zwolle melodic black/doom metal act active since 2014, pairing black metal's frigid atmosphere with doom's crushing deliberateness. Over a decade in the Overijssel capital, they have cultivated a distinctly melancholic style that favors mood over speed.
Italian band from Forlì that evolved from crossover and alternative metal into progressive metal, active since 2014. Their decade-long arc reflects a shift from punk-inflected aggression toward complex, technically demanding compositions.
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