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Featured Album
La Grande Mascarade - EP (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
No More Hollywood Endings (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
The Pursuit of Vikings: Live at Summer Breeze (Main Stage) (2018)
05/09 @ Coca-Cola Roxy, Atlanta
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Gossamer Wings of Illusion (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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Insidious Voice is a progressive metal band from Hanover, Germany, formed in 2018, weaving intricate compositions through dynamic, technically demanding arrangements. The band explores the ambitious outer reaches of heavy metal from Lower Saxony's capital.
Insolitvs is a technical progressive death metal band from Varaždin, Croatia, active since 2010 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Progressive heavy/groove metal band from the Community of Madrid, active since 2016. Their sound blends progressive structures with heavy and groove metal from the Madrid metropolitan area.
Progressive/post-metal band from Bordeaux, launched in 2025. Their Latin name — meaning 'star mountain' — channels atmospheric metal from the Aquitaine wine capital.
Progressive/experimental thrash metal band from Grado in Asturias, active since 2009. Their playfully umlauted name signals an eclectic approach to thrash metal from northern Spain.
Intangible is a progressive metal/rock band from Portugal, active since 2017 and crafting ambitious, technically proficient compositions that push beyond conventional metal boundaries. The project channels progressive sophistication.
InTensity is a progressive metal band from Thessaloniki, Greece, active since 2010 and crafting ambitious, technically proficient compositions that push beyond conventional metal boundaries. The project channels progressive sophistication.
Interferences is a progressive metalcore band from Bydgoszcz, Poland, active since 2013 and crafting ambitious, technically proficient compositions that push beyond conventional metal boundaries. The project channels progressive sophistication.
Internal Exile is a progressive thrash metal band from Bad Kissingen, Germany, formed in 2026, fusing the complexity of progressive structures with the aggression of thrash metal. The band represents one of the newest entries in the Franconian metal scene.
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