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Featured Album
Where Fear And Weapons Meet (2021)
Featured Sludge Metal Album
AMENRA “De zotte morgen” (written by Zjef Vanuytsel) (2020)
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Featured Doom Metal Album
With Fang and Claw (2025)
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Progressive metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2019. They craft intricate compositions from the Greek capital.
Progressive groove metal act from Budapest, formed in 2015. Continoom blends heavy grooves with progressive structures and dynamic range across their multifaceted sound.
Progressive thrash metal band from Spiez in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland, formed in 2020. Their sound merges complex progressive arrangements with the driving aggression of thrash metal.
Progressive metal band from the UK, formed in 2017. They craft intricate, dynamic compositions.
Progressive thrash band from Serravalle Sesia in Vercelli province, active since 2012. Controsigillo — Italian for 'counter-seal' — blends technical complexity with thrash aggression from Piedmont.
Progressive heavy metal act from Yeysk on the Sea of Azov, active since 2015. Contrust crafts melodic, intricate metal from the Krasnodar coast.
Progressive death and thrash metal band originally formed in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1990, with members now based in Germany and the United States. Their 2024 self-titled debut features compositions from the 1990s exploring themes of religion, predestination, and mortality.
Progressive black-death metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2018. They blend progressive complexity with extreme metal darkness from the French capital.
Progressive metal act from Velenje, active since 2003. Cordura has spent over two decades crafting intricate progressive metal from the Slovenian mining town.
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