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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Abridged Dimensions (2025)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
With Oden On Our Side (2015)
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Progressive heavy/thrash/groove metal outfit from Vienna, Austria, active since 2014. They navigate a wide sonic palette, blending the technicality of progressive metal with thrash urgency and groove metal heft.
German heavy/power metal band from Bochum, formed in 2015. They deliver anthemic metal with powerful vocals and soaring guitar work from the Ruhr region.
German heavy/doom/power metal band from Baden-Württemberg, formed in 2015. They combine the weight of doom metal with heavy and power metal's anthemic drive.
German blackened heavy metal band from Landstuhl, formed in 2011. They infuse traditional heavy metal with black metal's darkness for a unique hybrid sound.
German heavy metal band from Würzburg, formed in 2023. They play forward-looking traditional heavy metal from Franconia's wine country.
Progressive heavy metal band from Oostende, Belgium, active since 2013. They blend progressive complexity with the power of traditional heavy metal.
Stockholm-based gothic metal act active since 2013, interweaving dark romantic atmospheres with heavy guitar work and dramatic vocal performances. Their sound draws from the tradition of Type O Negative and Paradise Lost, balancing heaviness with melancholic beauty.
Heavy metal outfit from Athens, formed in 2020. Their material channels the spirit of iron-fisted riffing and anthemic songwriting that has defined heavy metal since its inception.
Bologna-based heavy metal act active since 2014, delivering riff-driven compositions rooted in the genre's foundational traditions of power chords, soaring vocals, and galloping rhythms. Their sound carries the unmistakable stamp of classic heavy metal conviction.
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