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Wasteland (2018)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Ad Astra (2025)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Acid King (EP) (2014)
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Power and speed metal band from Nantes, France, active since 2002. With over two decades of activity, Charter deliver seasoned power-speed metal from the Loire-Atlantique.
Death metal act from the Tuscan city of Siena, active since 2013. Charun — named after the Etruscan demon of the underworld — draws on ancient mythology for their crushing sound.
Indiana's Charybdis forge a hybrid of death metal, groove, and hardcore that refuses easy categorization, with the visceral directness of punk bleeding into extreme metal's more crushing textures. Their sound has a blunt, functional brutality that suits the unpretentious character of the Midwestern underground.
NWOBHM-inspired heavy metal band from Alloa, Scotland, active since 2000. They channel the spirit of classic British heavy metal from the Clackmannanshire region.
NWOBHM-inspired heavy metal band from Ipswich, England, active since 2000. They channel the spirit of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal from Suffolk.
Heavy metal band from Sandefjord in Vestfold, southern Norway, formed in 2016. Chasing Demons brings classic metal energy to the Oslofjord region.
Groove metal, metalcore, and thrash band from Ebersbach an der Fils, Germany, formed in 2022. They blend heavy grooves with metalcore breakdowns and thrash speed from the Swabian foothills.
Gothic metal band from the London/Milton Keynes area, England, formed in 2018. They weave dark, melancholic atmospheres into heavy metal.
Metalcore act from Vilnius, Lithuania, active since 2013. Chasing the Rise brings hardcore-infused intensity to the Baltic metal scene.
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