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Let You Go (2024)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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Halo (2017)
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Post-metal quintet from Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, blending alternative metal, grunge, and post-rock since 2015. Their 2020 concept album "Sun Worship Kingdom" features a guest appearance from Rosetta's Mike Armine and was mastered by James Plotkin.
Progressive death metal outfit from Astrakhan, formed in 2014. Their material navigates shifting tempos, unconventional song structures, and intricate instrumental interplay while maintaining the genre's essential aggression.
Finnish thrash metal band from Kuopio, formed in 2017. They deliver brain-thrashing metal from the eastern Finnish lake country.
German metalcore and hardcore band from the Saxony-Thuringia border region, formed in 2011. They play aggressive, hard-hitting metalcore.
Brainwash is a thrash metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2011. The band released the album "Time to Act" in 2013, a 12-track record rooted in the classic thrash metal style. They have since split up.
Death/thrash metal band from Saint-Avold in the Moselle department of northeastern France, active since 2016. Their album Reasons to Go Insane pairs melodic sensibilities with aggressive thrash instrumentation and dark lyrical themes.
Since 2020, this Dutch thrash metal act has delivered high-velocity riff assaults from Kaatsheuvel. Their sound channels the raw energy of the genre's golden era through tight musicianship.
Spanish heavy/power metal band from Tudela in Navarre, formed in 2015. Named after the gothic horror author, they deliver theatrical heavy and power metal.
Spanish heavy metal band from Cullera in Valencia, active since 1990. With over three decades of history, they are one of the most veteran heavy metal acts on the Spanish Mediterranean coast.
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