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Featured Album
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 death metal band from Lisbon, Portugal, formed in 2022, bringing frenetic energy and progressive ambition to Portuguese death metal. They deliver cerebral extremity from the capital.
Progressive metal band from Orebro, Sweden, active since 2008, named after the musical term for modulation between keys. Over seventeen years of cerebral progressive metal from central Sweden.
Technical and progressive death metal band from Madrid, Spain, formed in 2014, crafting evolutionary sonic complexity through intricate compositions. Their scientific name reflects the intellectual depth of their progressive death metal.
Progressive death metal band from Schwelm, Germany, formed in 2020, painting vivid sonic pictures through technically demanding progressive death metal. Their name, Latin for painting, reflects their approach to crafting detailed musical compositions.
Progressive metal band from Pleszew, Poland, active since 2009, delivering technically ambitious progressive metal from the Greater Poland region. Over fifteen years they have honed their complex compositional approach.
Progressive and technical death metal band from Rambouillet, France, formed in 2018, whose provocative name contrasts with the sophistication of their technical compositions. They deliver intricate progressive death metal from the Ile-de-France region.
Progressive post-black metal band from Riga, Latvia, formed in 2020, exploring the depths of progressive composition through a post-black metal lens. They bring adventurous musicianship to the Latvian metal scene.
Progressive metal band from Tomsk, Russia, formed in 2021, crafting intricate progressive metal compositions from western Siberia. They bring technical ambition to the Siberian metal scene.
Progressive black metal band from Krosno, Poland, formed in 2025, whose name means 'contempt' in Polish. They bring ambitious progressive black metal to the Subcarpathian underground.
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