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Safe House (2017)
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A Grey Sigh In A Flower Husk (2007)
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Paper Tiger (2025)
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Doom metal band from Dresden, Germany, formed in 2018. They craft slow, heavy compositions steeped in melancholy and oppressive atmosphere from the Saxon capital.
Doom and stoner metal band from the Banbury/Bicester area of Oxfordshire, England, active since 2011. They deliver heavy, fuzz-laden doom-stoner from the English countryside.
Progressive heavy-thrash band from Turin, formed in 2016. Caravanseraj blends Balkan-influenced progressive elements with thrash aggression from Piedmont.
Power and heavy metal band from Prague, Czech Republic, formed in 2014. They craft anthemic, melodic metal built on powerful vocal performances and driving guitar work.
Caravellus is a progressive/power metal band from Recife, Brazil, founded around 2002 by guitarist Glauber Oliveira as a studio project blending heavy metal with Brazilian folk influences such as maracatu, frevo, and ciranda. The band released their debut album "Lighthouse and Shed" in 2007 and followed with "Knowledge Machine" in 2010, distributed across Brazil, North America, Europe, South Korea, and Japan. Their 2022 album "Inter Mundos" features drummer John Macaluso (Ark, Yngwie Malmsteen) and draws on progressive metal influences in the vein of Dream Theater, Symphony X, and fellow Brazilians Angra.
Heavy metal band from Brunswick, Germany, formed in 2018. They deliver straightforward, riff-driven heavy metal with a hard-hitting, no-nonsense approach.
Detroit, Michigan thrash metal band active from 1983 that spent over a decade grinding the underground circuit before landing a compilation appearance in 1996.
Death metal band from Hanover, Germany, formed in 2022. They channel punishing death metal aggression from Lower Saxony's capital city.
Death metal band from Debrecen, Hungary's second-largest city, formed in 2016. Carbon Cage delivers brutal, unrelenting death metal from eastern Hungary.
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