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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Ad Astra (2025)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Serpent & Spirit (2021)
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Make It Rain / On the Other Side of Tonight (2024)
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Tidal Dreams from Athens deliver heavy and power metal that ebbs and flows with oceanic grandeur since 2012. Over a decade of compositions from the Greek capital channels the Aegean's tidal rhythms through melodic metal.
Tidejord blend melodic doom and post-metal under a Danish name meaning 'tidal earth,' creating expansive compositions that ebb and flow like the Nordic seas since 2023. Their sound captures the vast, oceanic quality of Scandinavian post-metal.
San Diego's Tideless weave death-doom density with shoegaze texture, producing a sound that's simultaneously crushing and immersive — churning riffs suspended in reverberant haze. The band has been refining this submerged aesthetic since forming in 2016.
Providence's Tides trade in atmospheric sludge and post-metal, building slow-burning compositions that favor emotional weight over brute force. Since 2014 the band has cultivated a sound rooted in dynamic tension, moving between quiet dread and dense, wall-of-sound crescendos.
Chicago's Tides Cult formed in 2019 at the collision of black metal's cold ferocity and hardcore's blunt-force urgency, generating a sound that's caustic and kinetic in equal measure. They're part of a broader Chicago wave pushing extreme metal into rawer, more confrontational territory.
Pittsburgh's Tides of Accretion lean into the slow and sepulchral, pairing doom metal's deliberate decay with death metal's tonal darkness for music that feels geological in its patience and mass. The project formed in 2020 and reflects Pittsburgh's long affection for heavy, underground extremity.
Tides of Sulfur from Cardiff deliver sludge and death metal with the volcanic, brimstone-tide intensity their chemical name demands since 2013. Over a decade of sulfurous compositions from the Welsh capital has produced some of South Wales's most corrosive extreme metal.
Colorado Springs newcomers Tides of Technocracy launched in 2024 playing death-thrash with a mechanistic edge, hammering out riffs that carry both the precision of death metal and the kinetic aggression of thrash. Their recent formation puts them at the leading edge of Colorado's burgeoning extreme metal circuit.
Holyoke, Massachusetts' Tides of Time have been working in progressive metal since 2014, emphasizing technical ambition and extended compositional structures over genre orthodoxy. Their work reflects the introspective side of New England progressive music, prioritizing atmosphere and craft.
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