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Formed in 2005 in Bregenz, Vorarlberg, The Sorrow were one of Austria's most prominent melodic death/metalcore exports, signing to Drakkar Records and releasing their debut album "Blessings from a Blackened Sky" in 2007. The band released four studio albums, with their final record "Misery Escape" arriving in 2012, before announcing an indefinite hiatus in 2017 following a farewell performance.
The Soulless from Bath deliver melodic death metal and metalcore devoid of spiritual warmth, channeling emptiness through aggressive melodicism since 2011. Over a decade from the Roman spa city has produced compositions as hollow and haunted as their name suggests.
The Southern Oracle is a metalcore band from Budapest, Hungary, formed in 2011. They combine heavy breakdowns with melodic passages and aggressive vocals in the modern metalcore tradition.
The Thousand Faces from Collado Villalba near Madrid fuse thrash metal with metalcore intensity, their mythological-sounding name driving shape-shifting compositions since 2018. Their Sierra de Guadarrama setting provides a mountainous backdrop for their genre-blending aggression.
The Vision Ablaze from Copenhagen blend melodic death metal, groove metal, and metalcore into a fiery hybrid since 2011. Over a decade of activity, they have become one of the Danish capital's most dynamic heavy acts, balancing melodic sophistication with crushing aggression.
The Way We Are is a metalcore band from Budapest, Hungary, formed in 2022. They deliver modern metalcore with heavy grooves, dynamic song structures, and aggressive energy.
This Broken Machine from Milan blend progressive metal and metalcore with alternative rock influences since 2012. Over a decade of malfunctioning-machine compositions from the Lombardy capital.
Thousand Years is a melodic death/groove metal/metalcore band from Lohja, Finland, active since 2010. They merge melodic death metal, groove metal, and metalcore into a dynamic hybrid.
ThousandDead is a metalcore/thrash/groove metal band from Rethymno on the island of Crete, active since 2017. Their music fuses metalcore intensity with thrash speed and groove power from the shores of the Mediterranean.
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