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Halo (2017)
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The Ivory Tower is a heavy metal band from Athens, formed in 2020. Their music delivers classic heavy metal with the grandeur and ambition their fortress-like name suggests.
The Jack from Santa Perpètua de Mogoda near Barcelona play heavy metal with the workmanlike dependability of a lifting device — or the wild unpredictability of a playing card — since 2018. Their Catalan industrial-town origins ground their classic metal approach.
Ferocious noise rock from Austin.
The Joker is a NWOBHM-influenced heavy metal band from London, formed in 2014. Their music pays homage to the New Wave of British Heavy Metal with classic riffs, soaring vocals, and the raw energy that defined the movement.
Spastic noise rock from Houston.
The Jones from Paris have been crafting progressive heavy metal since 1992, making them one of the longest-running progressive metal acts in France with over three decades of output. Their everyman name belies the ambitious complexity of their compositions from the French capital.
The Juliet Massacre is a death metal and deathcore band from Vasto in the Chieti province, Italy, formed in 2007. They combine death metal brutality with deathcore breakdowns and intense aggression.
The K is a gothic metal band from Milan, Italy, formed in 2012. They create atmospheric, darkly melodic gothic metal with moody arrangements and emotional depth.
Out of Crystal Lake, Illinois, The K2 Project have been developing their progressive metal sound since 2014 with the kind of methodical ambition the genre demands. Named for the world's second-highest peak, the project's aesthetic seems to favor scale and difficulty — music that rewards close attention and repays repeated listening. They're part of a quiet but persistent strain of Illinois progressive metal that operates largely outside the mainstream genre conversation.
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