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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Progressive metal solo artist from Darlington, England, active since 2020. The project delivers technically ambitious progressive compositions.
Richard Graudenz is a progressive/post-metal solo project from Jena in Thuringia, Germany, active since 2016. The project explores atmospheric post-metal and progressive compositions from the university city on the Saale river.
Cavan thrash metal act formed in 2018, named after Shakespeare's infamous monarch and bringing aggressive riffing from Ireland's rural heartland. Their high-energy approach channels classic thrash from an unlikely setting.
Richard James is a solo heavy metal and neoclassical shred project that has been active since 2015, devoted to the intersection of classical composition and heavy guitar playing in the tradition of Yngwie Malmsteen and Tony MacAlpine. The project favors virtuosity as its organizing principle — technical proficiency deployed in service of melodic ideas that reach back to baroque and romantic influences as much as heavy metal tradition. Without a fixed location, Richard James operates in the global community of guitar-centric metal that has always transcended geography.
Black/death/thrash metal quartet from Waidhofen an der Ybbs in Lower Austria, founded in 2009 and radically overhauled in 2015. Their debut full-length concept album Ascheland (2018, Studio Hundert), depicts the total downfall of humanity across its runtime, following an early 2012 demo recorded in Vienna.
Ricin is a thrash metal band from Oulu in northern Finland, formed in 2017. Named after the deadly biological toxin, the band delivers fast, aggressive thrash from the Bothnian coast.
São Paulo guitarist who released his debut solo album Reasons for My Vengeance on October 4, 2024, through MS Metal Records with distribution by Tratore Music. The ten-track instrumental record was produced by Thiago Bianchi (Noturnall, ex-Shaman) and features Marcell Cardoso on drums and Alexandre Panta (ex-Hibria) on bass as a special guest.
Groove-driven stoner metal from Austin.
Ricky Diamond is a southern/stoner metal and rock project from Torrevieja on the Costa Blanca in Alicante province, Spain, formed in 2017. The project channels sun-scorched southern rock and stoner metal from the Mediterranean coast.
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