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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 heavy metal band from Bolzano in South Tyrol, formed in 2019. Crimson Sunset blends progressive complexity with classic metal from the bilingual Alpine border region.
Progressive metal solo project from Ancona in the Marche region, active since 2022. Cristiano Coppa explores technical and progressive metal composition.
Progressive metal act from Palermo, Sicily, active since 2006. Critical Stage has spent nearly two decades crafting intricate progressive metal from Italy's largest island.
Progressive metal act from Bergen, active since 2013. Cronian — connected to members of Borknagar and beyond — crafts expansive, atmospheric progressive metal from western Norway.
Progressive heavy-thrash act from Laives near Bolzano in South Tyrol, formed in 2024. Crotalo — Italian for 'rattlesnake' — blends progressive complexity with thrash aggression.
Power and progressive metal band from Kirchlengern, Germany, active since 1994. With three decades of activity, Crow7 are veterans of the Westphalian power-prog scene.
Progressive metal act from Amstelveen near Amsterdam, formed in 2021. Crown Compass crafts intricate, melodic progressive metal.
Progressive doom metal band from Maidstone, England, formed in 2015. They blend progressive complexity with crushing doom from the Garden of England.
Progressive grindcore act from Malmö, active since 2004. Crowpath has spent two decades pushing grindcore into progressive territory from southern Sweden.
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