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Featured Album
Where Fear And Weapons Meet (2021)
Featured Sludge Metal Album
AMENRA “De zotte morgen” (written by Zjef Vanuytsel) (2020)
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Featured Doom Metal Album
With Fang and Claw (2025)
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Progressive groove-heavy metal band from Manchester, England, emerging in 2025. They blend progressive complexity with heavy grooves.
Groove, heavy, and thrash metal band from the Bramming/Esbjerg area, Denmark, formed in 2017. They blend heavy grooves with thrash speed from Denmark's west coast.
Melodic death-thrash and groove metal band from Bochum, Germany, formed in 2016. They blend melodic guitar work with thrash velocity and heavy grooves from the central Ruhr.
Progressive groove metal act from Innlandet county in central Norway, formed in 2017. Chopworm delivers technically-inclined heavy grooves from the Norwegian interior.
Gothenburg melodic death/groove metal act formed in 2013, channeling the city's legendary melodeath tradition through a groove-heavy lens. Their rhythmic approach adds modern heft to classic Swedish melodicism.
Death-thrash-groove outfit from Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland, active since 2018. Chupa Cabra delivers raucous, high-energy extreme metal from Ireland's rural southwest.
Sludge, stoner, and groove metal band from Sofia, Bulgaria, formed in 2019. They pile heavy grooves atop sludgy foundations with a stoner metal swagger, adding to Sofia's increasingly diverse heavy music landscape.
Melodic death-groove metal band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2017. They blend Scandinavian-style melodic death metal with heavy grooves and dynamic arrangements.
Gothic metal, groove, and metalcore band from the Tubingen/Reutlingen area, Germany, active since 2013. They blend dark gothic atmospheres with heavy grooves and metalcore dynamics.
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