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The Blind Leading The Blind (2018)
Featured Grindcore Album
Scum (2017)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
Grave Mounds And Grave Mistakes (Luxus) (2018)
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Progressive heavy metal act from Saarbrucken, Germany, building technically ambitious compositions since 2017. Their abbreviated name reflects a focus on experimentation within the heavy metal framework.
Progressive metal band from Budapest, Hungary formed in 2019. They deliver intricate progressive metal from the Hungarian capital.
Progressive metal act from Horsens, Denmark, crafting technically ambitious compositions since 2018. Their name, evoking displacement and cultural exile, adds emotional depth to their progressive metal complexity.
Progressive metal act from Bremen in northern Germany, formed in 2024, breaking the silence with technically ambitious compositions. Their Latin name, meaning "from silence," suggests a sound that emerges from stillness into complex, dynamic metal.
Part of Italy's underrated but thriving metal community, this act channels power metal and progressive metal with a focus on labyrinthine compositions spanning multiple movements and moods. Formed in 2010, based in Venice, every recording pushes a little further into uncharted sonic territory.
Progressive metal band from Parkano/Tampere, Finland formed in 2019. They deliver intricate, forward-thinking metal from the Pirkanmaa region.
Norwegian extreme progressive metal pioneers from Bekkestua/Bærum, recognized for precise technical musicianship across five studio albums and two EPs. Their 2005 album The Blueprint Dives earned a Spellemannsprisen nomination for Best Metal Album, and their sound has evolved from technical death metal through progressive death/thrash into alternative rock territory — culminating in the 2025 double LP Burial.
The Dutch city of Eindhoven serves as headquarters for this groove metal and progressive metal operation, whose arsenal includes Opeth-school dynamics married to modern progressive sensibility. Their approach balances aggression with genuine musical substance.
Heavy metal band with progressive influences from Irkutsk in eastern Siberia, active since 2005 — two decades of heavy metal from the historic city near Lake Baikal.
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