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Actin' Up (2023)
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Will To Power (24-bit HD audio) (2023)
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Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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New Hampshire's Chiburi brings a progressive metal sensibility to New England, crafting intricate, evolving compositions with a patient approach to dynamics and structure. The band's rural surroundings inform a reflective, expansive sound.
Punishing Progressive Death Metal from Houston.
Milwaukee's Cholernik fuse black metal darkness with progressive ambition, building elaborate compositions that shift between cold atmosphere and technical complexity. A forward-thinking act from the Wisconsin underground.
Baltimore's Chowder bring a progressive sensibility to doom metal, stretching compositions into exploratory territory while never losing the essential heaviness. An unusual name for a genuinely heavy band.
Suffern, New York guitarist Chris Caffery is best known as a longtime member of Savatage and Trans-Siberian Orchestra, but his solo catalog explores darker, heavier territory in power and progressive metal. A veteran of the genre's upper tier.
Savannah-based progressive metal project Chris Catharsis explores introspective, technically ambitious territory under a fittingly personal name. The project is defined by careful craftsmanship and emotional depth.
Los Angeles guitarist Chris Poland made his name as an original member of Megadeth, and his solo work leans into neoclassical and progressive metal with fluid, jazz-inflected technique. One of the genre's most distinctive voices.
Waco-based progressive metal project Chris White explores intricate, thoughtful heavy music from Central Texas with a focus on melodic complexity and technical composition. Part of a quietly active Lone Star prog scene.
Charlotte progressive metal artist Christian Pearson crafts technically ambitious guitar-driven compositions that blend virtuosity with structured songwriting. His work sits at the intersection of instrumental precision and emotive melody.
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