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Featured Album
Eschatology of War (2021)
Featured Power Metal Album
Big Ship Little Ship / Bassline Junkie (2020)
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Featured Heavy Metal Album
No More Hollywood Endings (2025)
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Ghent-based progressive sludge metal band blending stoner rock, grunge, and progressive elements since 2017. Their lyrics explore space, solitude, and defiance as metaphors for melancholia, delivered through heavy riffing, proggy melodies, and grungy vocals.
French progressive melodic death metal band from Paris, formed in 2022 and blending technical sophistication with melodic hooks. Their approach layers progressive complexity over melodic death metal's harmonic foundation.
Hungarian progressive death metal band from Szeged, crafting technically ambitious compositions since 2008. Named after Stanislaw Lem, their approach brings science-fiction-inspired vision to progressive death metal.
Spanish power/progressive metal band from Madrid, blending epic melodies with progressive complexity since 2019. Their approach channels soaring vocal lines and intricate arrangements through a modern metal framework.
Hungarian progressive/power metal band from Debrecen, blending technical ambition with anthemic melodies since 2015. Their approach channels the best of both genres through sophisticated arrangements.
French progressive metal band from Saint-Remy-de-Provence, crafting technically ambitious compositions since 2008. Their Provencal roots inform a sun-drenched take on progressive metal's complex structures.
Swedish progressive black metal band from Stockholm, pushing black metal into complex, ambitious territory since 2015. Their approach blends progressive structures with blackened intensity.
Finnish progressive death metal band from Jyvaskyla, crafting technically ambitious compositions since 2018. Their name reflects the transitional, threshold-crossing nature of their progressive approach to death metal.
Polish progressive metal/rock band from Wroclaw, crafting liminal, threshold-crossing compositions since 2017. Their approach blends progressive complexity with accessible rock elements.
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