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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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German heavy/power metal band from Cologne, active since 2005. They deliver commanding power metal with heavy metal foundations from the Rhineland.
Thrash metal outfit from Råholt, formed in 2013. Their compositions hit with the urgent intensity that defines the genre at its best: fast, tight, and unapologetically aggressive.
Heavy metal outfit from Bologna, formed in 2018. Their material channels the spirit of iron-fisted riffing and anthemic songwriting that has defined heavy metal since its inception.
Heavy metal outfit from Portopalo di Capo Passero (Syracuse), formed in 2021. Their material channels the spirit of iron-fisted riffing and anthemic songwriting that has defined heavy metal since its inception.
Czech heavy metal band from Pečky, formed in 2018. They deliver traditional heavy metal with a modern edge rooted in the Czech underground scene.
German heavy metal band from Nuremberg and Bayreuth, formed in 2020. They play classic German heavy metal drawing from the proud traditions of the Franconian metal scene.
Heavy metal, sludge, and grunge-inflected rock band from Southend-on-Sea in Essex, active since 2015. They bring a gritty, genre-crossing heaviness that draws on hard rock, sludge metal, and the murkier side of grunge.
Finnish thrash/heavy metal band from Vantaa, formed in 2024. They play aggressive thrash and heavy metal from the Helsinki metropolitan area.
Finnish heavy metal band from Lapinjärvi, formed in 2012. They play classic heavy metal with a creative twist from the rural southeast.
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