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Featured Album
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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Heavy metal band from Berlin, Germany, active since 2001. With over two decades of activity, Cobra are veterans of the Berlin heavy metal scene.
Heavy metal band from Kuortane, Finland, formed in 2023. They deliver classic heavy metal energy from the rural Ostrobothnian countryside.
Heavy metal band from Joensuu, Finland, emerging in 2025. They channel classic heavy metal power from eastern Finland.
Heavy metal band from Nieuw Vennep, North Holland, formed in 2020. Cobra Spell delivers flashy, '80s-inspired traditional heavy metal with a glam edge.
Heavy metal band from Augustdorf, Germany, formed in 2020. They deliver hard-hitting, riff-driven heavy metal from the Teutoburg Forest region of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Speed-thrash band from Ferrara, formed in 2019. Cocaine Cowboys plays wild, high-velocity thrash and speed metal with outlaw attitude from Emilia-Romagna.
NWOBHM heavy metal band from London, active since 2000. Originally an East End punk band in the late 1970s, Cockney Rejects transitioned into heavy metal, becoming part of the NWOBHM movement.
Heavy metal band from Ingolstadt, Germany, active since 2014. They forge powerful, classic heavy metal from the Bavarian Danube city.
Groove, heavy, and thrash metal band from the Pegnitz/Bayreuth area of Upper Franconia, Germany, active since 2013. They blend heavy grooves with thrash aggression and classic heavy metal hooks.
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