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Been a hot minute since I posted that one Baroness track before. Here we have a signal change in their sound, where John Baizley started using clean vocals mixed with his raspy voice. As well as adding a more complex but slightly lighter guitar sound. This is still undeniably progressive sludge metal though.

All their album art was done by the vocalist as well, a very distinctive style; lots of bands out there have been using artwork done by him - Skeletonwitch, Black Tusk, Kylesa, and probably more lol.

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Gothic metal with heavy touches of black and folk metal. From Portugal, in 1995. Linked is the closer to their debut, and my personal favorite of theirs, nothing else tops this. Reminds me a lot of certain Moonsorrow tracks.

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Dissonant black/death metal with a different, hostile atmosphere that smacks you in the face. Linked is the single from their upcoming fourth album Doomed.

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My personal favorite off the solo debut of probably one of the most well known people on the planet in terms of music. I don't normally love synths here, but they just work so well. And let's not forget the legendary Randy Rhoads on guitar. RIP o7 and to Lee Kerslake the drummer as well.

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Sadly I can only link the track to the Memoirs of a Madman best of compilation on Tidal :/

German heavy/speed/power metal from 1988! Normally I'd've posted this in [email protected] but I feel it has more in common with my other speed metal uploads.

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Canadian woman-fronted modern heavy and traditional doom metal! Got a huge Candlemass inspiration. Also got some fantastic album art, I'd hang each one on my wall unironically :D. Linked is the opener to their debut track.

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This album comes from a Japanese group that makes music from various genres, most notably noise rock, post metal, drone metal and sludge metal. Linked are my big recommendations from this incredible album, being Pt. 2 and Pt. 3 - an amazing buildup and release. Though the whole album is a single drone, all the instruments come together during those two standouts.

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Hear me out guys lol - give this ONE song a try! I don't recommend anything else that they've made, except for maybe the track Pain for Pleasure on a different album. I was honestly completely surprised to see a Metallica-inspired thrash metal song right smack dab in the middle of a skate punk/pop punk album lmao.

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So.. Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters and Nirvana fame basically, practically solo produced an extreme metal album, mixing all sorts of genres from sludge, black, doom, heavy, thrash, and even alternative metal plus some punk on top of that. He definitely took the kitchen sink approach lol. It's not all that bad either! Linked is the single of the self titled album with a faster tempo and some catchy riffs.

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There is a Bandcamp, but features no info nor does it contain this release.

EDIT: ok so It turns out this "band" was created for a movie called Studio 666, which is a comedy horror starring the Foo Fighters and has a bunch of this album's music as part of the soundtrack lol.

Bit of blasphemy maybe? Mostly faithful but definitely still adding their own style into it. Unofficial live video here.

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Today we have some pure thrash, very similar to Slayer's Hell Awaits mixed a little with Demolition Hammer's Epidemic of Violence. Intense as all hell, this is from this Norwegian band's 2007 EP, We're Rotting.

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Los Angeles modern heavy metal that sounds a lot like Judas Priest. Got a really nice bass guitar sound too! Linked is the first track to their latest record which happens to be the title track - put your best foot forward I guess lol.

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