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Featured Album
The Blind Leading The Blind (2018)
Featured Grindcore Album
Scum (2017)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
Grave Mounds And Grave Mistakes (Luxus) (2018)
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Heavy metal outfit from Skopje, formed in 2022. Their material channels the spirit of iron-fisted riffing and anthemic songwriting that has defined heavy metal since its inception.
Finnish heavy/thrash metal band from Lahti, formed in 2017. Named after England's most haunted house, they deliver ghostly thrash-heavy metal.
Heavy metal outfit from Poland, formed in 2019. Their material channels the spirit of iron-fisted riffing and anthemic songwriting that has defined heavy metal since its inception.
Spanish progressive heavy/doom metal band from Seville, formed in 2024. They blend progressive ambition with heavy and doom metal weight from Andalusia.
French heavy metal and hard rock band from Chelles near Paris, formed in 2020. They play bottom-line heavy metal from the eastern Parisian suburbs.
German heavy/power metal band from Frankfurt an der Oder, active since 2008. They deliver boundless power metal anthems from the eastern German border city.
German heavy/power metal band from Fürth in Franconia, formed in 2013. They deliver powerful heavy and power metal from the Nuremberg metropolitan area.
German heavy/speed metal band from Lower Saxony, formed in 2016. They combine heavy metal foundations with speed metal's blistering pace.
Ballymoney-based southern metal act active since 2022, injecting blues-influenced swagger and whiskey-soaked groove into their heavy, riff-driven sound. Their music channels the spirit of American Southern rock and metal through a British perspective.
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