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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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Heavy and power metal band from Jyvaskyla, Finland, formed in 2018, delivering powerful melodic metal from central Finland. They combine heavy metal muscle with power metal grandeur.
Bad Schmiedeberg's Prophets of the Rising Dead evolved from thrash metal origins into melodic metalcore, charting a course from old-school aggression to more hook-driven territory. Their Saxony-Anhalt roots in the former East add resilience to their shape-shifting approach.
Heavy and thrash metal band from Elista, Russia, formed in 2016, delivering addictive metal from the capital of Kalmykia, Europe's only Buddhist-majority region. They bring unique cultural perspective to their thrash.
Stuttgart's Pump has been delivering melodic heavy metal since 2015, bringing accessible hooks and driving rhythms to the Swabian capital's metal scene. Their Baden-Württemberg base connects them to a southern German tradition of polished, melodically-focused metal.
Heavy metal band from Boras, Sweden, formed in 2011, delivering over a decade of unadulterated heavy metal from the Vastra Gotaland region. They bring pure metallic energy to the Swedish scene.
Heavy metal turned heavy and speed metal band from Kosice, Slovakia, formed in 2023, evolving into faster territory. They bring fresh metal energy from Slovakia's second-largest city.
Hardcore turned heavy metal band from Skelleftea, Sweden, formed in 2017, evolving from hardcore roots into heavier metal territory. They bring metamorphic intensity from the Vasterbotten coast.
From the wine-producing village of Vetroz in the Valais canton, Pyramide has been building melodic heavy metal since 2015. Their francophone Swiss perspective adds a Gallic flair to classic metal structures, setting them apart from their Germanic Swiss counterparts.
Heavy metal and hard rock band from Bijacovce, Slovakia, formed in 2015, named after the iron sulfide mineral known as fool's gold. Over a decade of gleaming metal from the Spiš region.
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