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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Turin-based symphonic power metal act active since 2012, pairing soaring vocal performances with orchestral keyboard arrangements and galloping double-bass percussion. Their anthemic compositions draw from the European power metal tradition of bombastic, larger-than-life heavy metal.
Spanish progressive/southern metal band from Girona in Catalonia, formed in 2012. They blend progressive metal complexity with southern metal grooves for a unique Iberian take on the style.
Progressive metal outfit from Vilnius, formed in 2017. Their work incorporates odd time signatures, extended instrumental passages, and dynamic contrasts that elevate their sound beyond standard metal fare.
Four-piece sludge/stoner metal band from London, formed in 2016, blending black metal, doom, grunge, and sludge influences. Their 2016 demo was recorded live at Soundlab Studios, capturing raw, atmospheric heaviness across five tracks of crushing, genre-blending metal.
German heavy metal band from Remscheid, active since 2002. With over two decades in the scene, they are a stalwart of the Bergisches Land heavy metal underground.
Blackened drone/doom metal project from the UK, active since 2014. Their work merges the suffocating weight of drone and doom with blackened atmospherics.
Black Crown Initiate formed in Reading, Pennsylvania in 2012, blending technical death metal with progressive and atmospheric elements. The band self-released their debut EP Song of the Crippled Bull in 2013, which earned them a deal with eOne Music and later Century Media Records. Full-lengths The Wreckage of Stars (2014), Selves We Cannot Forgive (2016), and Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape (2020) established them as one of the more adventurous acts in modern progressive death metal, drawing early touring exposure alongside Goatwhore and Behemoth.
Finnish black metal and gothic/doom metal band from Rovaniemi, active since 1991. With over three decades of history, they are one of Finland's earliest and most enduring black metal projects, originating from the Arctic Circle.
French progressive metal band from Lille, formed in 2024. They explore progressive metal's geometric complexities from northern France.
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