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Safe House (2017)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
A Grey Sigh In A Flower Husk (2007)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Paper Tiger (2025)
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Avant-garde black metal band from Chamblac in the Dordogne, France, formed in 2024. They push black metal into unconventional territory from the rural French countryside.
Black metal band from Bordeaux, France, active since 2009. Their name meaning cold room in French, Chambre Froide craft frigid, atmospheric black metal from the Aquitaine capital.
Black metal project from Uzhhorod in Transcarpathia, western Ukraine, formed in 2018. Chamos channels raw black metal from the Carpathian border region near Hungary and Slovakia.
Symphonic deathcore band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2024. They blend symphonic grandeur with crushing deathcore breakdowns and death metal extremity.
Melodic death metal act from Almelo in Overijssel, formed in 2020. Chamunda — named after the Hindu goddess of death — delivers melodic extremity from eastern Netherlands.
Heavy metal band from Madrid, Spain, formed in 2020. They channel classic heavy metal power from the Spanish capital.
Moorhead, Minnesota band Chandrian blend black metal's raw intensity with symphonic metal's orchestral arrangements and grand scope. Their approach incorporates atmospheric keyboard layers and melodic structures alongside harsher black metal elements.
Minneapolis, Minnesota atmospheric black metal act Changeling craft expansive, melancholic black metal rooted in the post-black and atmospheric traditions, incorporating ambient textures and dynamic shifts alongside the genre's core harshness. Minnesota's long winters and isolation are palpable in their sound.
Huntsville, Alabama band Changeling combine progressive metal's technical ambition and complex arrangements with the speed and aggression of thrash metal. Their music explores intricate song structures and shifting time signatures in a style influenced by 90s progressive thrash.
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