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Proof (2024)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
The Early Years (2014)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
A Grey Sigh In A Flower Husk (2007)
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Post-metal and sludge band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2022. They blend expansive post-metal dynamics with crushing sludge weight from the Catalan capital.
Progressive power metal project from Bålsta near Stockholm, formed in 2026. Castillion brings fresh melodic ambition to the Swedish power metal scene.
Wilmington's Casting blend melodic death metal's expressive lead guitar work with thrash's tightly coiled riffing, shifting fluidly between melodic passages and aggressive, propulsive runs.
Doom metal band from Huittinen, Finland, formed in 2021. They craft crushing, monolithic doom from the Finnish Satakunta region.
San Francisco's Castle deal in heavy, riff-forward doom with a traditional heavy metal backbone, favoring massive guitar tones and a bluesy, earth-shaking heaviness over experimental detours.
This California-based Castle play meat-and-potatoes heavy metal with roots in the classic tradition — straightforward song structures, melodic hooks, and a sound that owes as much to the NWOBHM as to anything modern.
Minneapolis's Castle combine doom's slow, ritualistic tempos with sludge metal's distorted, feedback-laden aggression, crafting a sound that lurches forward under the weight of its own oppressive heaviness.
Pittsburgh's Castle Blood are a crossover thrash institution dating back to 1987, known for fast, punk-inflected riffing and a lo-fi, raw energy that ties them to the genre's original DIY spirit.
Philadelphia's Castle Freak lean into the noise and chaos of grindcore while keeping one foot in death metal's structural sensibility, delivering brief, violent bursts of grinding extremity.
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