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Irrational Pull (2020)
Featured Doom Metal Album
Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Featured Metalcore Album
The Powerless Rise (2010)
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Sludge metal band from Plock, Poland, formed in 2014, delivering crushing sludge from central Poland's Masovian region. Over a decade of heavy, slow-burning riffs mark their dedication.
Metalcore and melodic death metal band from Bolzano, Italy, formed in 2020, blending Scandinavian melodic death metal with modern metalcore from the alpine South Tyrol region. They bridge Italian and Germanic metal traditions.
Hard-hitting heavy metal from San Antonio.
Hagen's Pariahlord has been dealing in fuzz-drenched stoner metal since 2020, channeling the Westphalian city's industrial heritage into low-and-slow riff worship. Their doom-adjacent grooves carry the weight of the Ruhr region's steel-town legacy.
Heavy and doom metal band from London, England, formed in 2003, delivering weighty, sermon-like heavy doom from the British capital. Over two decades they have maintained their presence in London's heavy music scene.
Operating from the rural Emsland district since 2009, Parity Boot fuses industrial metal's mechanical pulse with electronic experimentation. Their Lower Saxon countryside setting provides an unlikely home for their cold, machine-driven sound.
Heavy metal turned rock band from Odda, Norway, formed in 2023, delivering music from the dramatic fjord landscape of Hardanger. Their evolution from heavy metal to rock reflects a broadening sonic palette.
Parkcrest were a thrash metal band from the Santiago area who formed in 2011 and split up in 2023, recording their material at Lion's Roar Studio in Peñaflor. They released two full-lengths: Hallucinative Minds in 2017 and ...And That Blue Will Turn to Red in 2019, both praised for capturing an authentic 1980s thrash aesthetic without simply recycling riffs.
Byron Bay, Australia's Parkway Drive transformed from a ferocious metalcore band into one of heavy music's biggest global headliners, with Winston McCall's commanding stage presence anchoring their evolution from the breakneck fury of 'Killing with a Smile' to the arena-rock grandeur of 'Ire' and 'Reverence.' Their pyrotechnic-laden live shows at festivals like Wacken have become the stuff of legend, setting a new standard for metalcore production values. Parkway Drive's journey from the Australian underground to stadiums worldwide represents one of the most remarkable ascents in 21st-century heavy music.
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