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Outer Space (2024)
Featured Power Metal Album
No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Black metal band from Bad Salzuflen, Germany, formed in 2021. Named after the ancient Germanic Cherusci tribe, they channel historical and pagan themes through raw black metal.
Austin's Cheshire deals in traditional heavy metal with a Texas swagger, delivering riff-forward music steeped in the genre's classic era. The band is a fixture of Austin's diverse and active metal underground.
Colorado's Cheshire Black pairs the grandiosity of symphonic metal with death metal's brutality, crafting dramatic, orchestrated compositions that balance melody with aggression. The project reaches for cinematic scale within extreme metal.
Black-grind project from Poland, formed in 2021. Chesslay fuses raw black metal with grinding blasts.
Progressive metalcore band from France, emerging in 2025. They blend progressive complexity with metalcore dynamics.
Doom and stoner metal band from Lahti, Finland, active since 2011. They craft heavy, slow-burning stoner-doom from the Finnish lake district.
Bowling Green, Kentucky's Chest Rockwell navigates the complex compositional territory of progressive metal with both technical precision and a flair for memorable songwriting. The band is a standout in the Kentucky underground.
Black-death metal band from Edinburgh, Scotland, formed in 2020. They fuse black metal darkness with death metal aggression from the Scottish capital.
Heavy and speed metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2017. Chevalier deliver high-velocity, riff-driven metal in the classic speed metal tradition from the Finnish capital.
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