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Featured Album
Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
Featured Power Metal Album
Big Ship Little Ship / Bassline Junkie (2020)
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Featured Heavy Metal Album
Trial By Fire (2023)
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Belgian metalcore band from Rochefort, combining hardcore aggression with metal technicality since 2021. Their name signals the urgent, time-constrained intensity of their metalcore approach.
Madrid melodic death metal/metalcore act with roots reaching back to 2009, making them one of the Spanish capital's longer-running modern extreme acts. Their blend of Gothenburg-style melody with metalcore structure has evolved considerably over fifteen years.
Athens' One of These Days grinds through an uncompromising fusion of death metal and grindcore, delivering short, sharp bursts of controlled chaos. Their aggressive approach channels the intensity of early Napalm Death and Terrorizer.
Delft thrash/groove metal act active since 2012, delivering rhythmically driven metal from the Dutch city famous for its pottery. Over a decade they have refined a style that pairs thrash's velocity with groove metal's head-nodding heaviness.
Groove metal, metalcore, and hardcore band from Krasnogorsk near Moscow, active since 2013. Their dystopian name frames aggressive modern metal with a sociopolitical edge.
Gothic, alternative metal/rock, and metalcore band from Gothenburg, Sweden, active since 2009. Their long-running project blends gothic atmosphere with metalcore dynamics and alternative accessibility.
Swiss progressive metal project launched in 2020, exploring complex compositional structures and unconventional song forms. The project takes an ambitious, genre-fluid approach to heavy music that resists easy categorization.
Stoner metal/rock band from Nevinnomyssk in Russia's Stavropol region, active since 2015. Their witch-themed name accompanies hazy, riff-heavy stoner metal from the North Caucasus.
Bilbao progressive/power metal act formed in 2022, bringing technical ambition to the Basque Country's metal scene. Their compositions blend power metal's soaring energy with progressive structures and time-signature experimentation.
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