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Featured Album
The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Groove Metal Album
Nihility (2002)
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Featured Thrash Metal Album
Inhale The Noise (2026)
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Royal Jester is a power metal band from Umeå, Sweden, active since 2015. The band brings soaring, anthemic power metal to northern Sweden, channeling the melodic traditions of European power metal.
Royal Oak is a progressive/thrash metal band from Koblenz in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, formed in 2017. The band merges progressive ambition with thrash aggression from the city at the Rhine-Moselle confluence.
Power/progressive metal band from Athens, Greece, active since 2015. Their approach combines anthemic power metal with progressive complexity from the Greek capital.
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Stoner metal band from Colchester, England, active since 2015. Their approach delivers hazy, riff-heavy stoner metal from the Essex garrison town.
Progressive black metal project from London, formed in 2026. Their Slavic-rooted name accompanies boundary-pushing progressive black metal from the UK capital.
Rozz is a heavy metal band from Valenciennes in northern France, active since 2011. The band delivers traditional heavy metal from the old coal-mining city near the Belgian border.
Speed metal/punk band from Portugal, active since 2015. Their deliberately misspelled, road-scum-themed name accompanies high-velocity crossover from the Portuguese underground.
Groove metal and hardcore band with RAC influences from Sopron, Hungary, active since 2004. Two decades of aggressive metal from the Austrian border city.
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