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Eschatology of War (2021)
Featured Power Metal Album
Big Ship Little Ship / Bassline Junkie (2020)
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Featured Heavy Metal Album
No More Hollywood Endings (2025)
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Groove metal outfit from Kampen, formed in 2022. Their material trades in the satisfying crunch of heavy, rhythmically driven riffs that demand involuntary neck movement.
Finnish symphonic/melodic death/pagan metal band from Helsinki, formed in 2019. They layer symphonic grandeur and pagan themes over melodic death metal foundations for an epic, cinematic sound.
Kyiv-based melodic thrash metal act active since 2015, tempering the genre's trademark aggression with harmonized guitar leads and dynamic songwriting. Their approach delivers thrash metal's visceral energy without sacrificing melodic accessibility.
German melodic death/groove metal and metalcore band from Böblingen, formed in 2024. They merge three aggressive metal styles with melodic sensibility.
Spanish metalcore and melodic death metal band from Guernica in the Basque Country, formed in 2013. They channel misery-laden metalcore with melodeath influences from the historically significant Basque town.
Melodic death/thrash metal band from Zurich, Switzerland, formed in 2021. They combine melodic sensibility with the aggression of death and thrash metal.
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German melodic death metal band from Warburg, active since 2000. With two-and-a-half decades of melodic death metal, they are one of the most seasoned acts in the Westphalian extreme metal scene.
German melodic death metal band from Regensburg, active since 2007. They bring nearly two decades of refined melodic death metal to the Bavarian underground.
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