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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 Manresa in Catalonia, Spain, active since 2005. With two decades of history, Criterivm are stalwarts of the Catalan heavy metal tradition.
Heavy metal band from Geneva, Switzerland, formed in 2018. They deliver hard-hitting, riff-driven heavy metal with strong hooks and driving energy.
Heavy metal band from Heppenheim on the Bergstrasse, Germany, formed in 2017. They forge classic heavy metal from the wine-growing hills between the Rhine and the Odenwald.
Heavy metal band from Grenoble, France, formed in 2015. They deliver classic heavy metal from the French Alps.
Heavy metal band from Aosta in Italy's smallest region, nestled in the Alps, active since 2015. Crohm delivers traditional metal from the mountainous border region near France and Switzerland.
Heavy and power metal band from Tatabánya, Hungary, active since 1998. Cross Borns has been a pillar of the Hungarian traditional metal scene for over a quarter century.
Heavy metal band from Bratislava, formed in 2020. Cross This Bridge delivers straightforward traditional metal from the Slovak capital.
Albanian groove and thrash metal outfit from Tirana, active since 1998. Their sound evolved from a groove/thrash/heavy metal hybrid in their early years toward a groove and nu-metal direction in later releases.
Heavy metal band from Rome, active since 2012. CrossDeath brings classic metal energy to the Italian capital's prolific scene.
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