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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
06/09 @ Warehouse SWG3, Glasgow
Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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All Will Know delivers melodic death metal and metalcore from Darmstadt in Hesse since 2012. Over a decade in this scientific and technological hub south of Frankfurt, they have built a sound that balances Scandinavian melodeath with modern metalcore dynamics.
All-One creates symphonic black metal from an undisclosed Slovak location since 2010. Their unified name drives fifteen years of orchestrally enriched compositions that seek totality through extreme metal.
Bowerston, Ohio progressive metal solo artist. Ambitious prog from the rural heartland of Appalachian Ohio.
Alldead combines black and death metal from Taranto, the Ionian Sea port city, since 2022. Their blunt name captures the finality and devastation at the core of their Pugliese extreme metal.
Alle de Heksene channels black metal from England since 2021, their Norwegian name meaning "all the witches" reflecting the Scandinavian influence on their sound. Their linguistic homage connects them to black metal's Nordic spiritual homeland.
Denver/Fort Collins melodic death metal act and one of Colorado's most acclaimed heavy bands. Their technically virtuosic, science-themed approach to melodeath has earned them international recognition.
Grove City, Ohio heavy metal band from the early 2000s with a traditional metal approach. Three releases between 2002-2004 document a band paying tribute to classic heavy metal fundamentals.
Allegoria delivers melodic death metal from Tikhvin in the Leningrad Region since 2024. From this small town famous for its medieval monastery and the Tikhvin icon, they bring fresh melodic extremity to the northwest Russian scene.
Allegorist is a symphonic and gothic metal band from Sofia, Bulgaria, formed in 2012 and active until 2014. They released the album "Play A King" in 2014, a five-track record exploring themes of mystery, symbolism, and spirituality through orchestrated metal arrangements.
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