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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
Featured Power Metal Album
Extreme Power Metal (2019)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
rosemary (2023)
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Soul Dealer deliver heavy and thrash metal from Granollers near Barcelona, combining classic metal riffing with thrash's aggressive velocity. Active since 2014, they bring soul-trading intensity to the Catalan metal scene.
Soul Grinder is a Portland, Oregon heavy and thrash metal band formed in 2022, channeling classic metal aggression into a city known for cultivating independent and underground heavy music.
Soul Sound Day craft melodic heavy metal and hard rock from Jyvaskyla, combining classic metal melodies with accessible rock hooks. Active since 2004, they bring two decades of soulful sound to the central Finnish scene.
Soul Terror is a Maryland band formed in 2013 that melds death metal, doom, and sludge into a slow-grinding, punishing sound. Their genre crossover places crushing heaviness at the center, drawing from both the morbidity of death metal and the oppressive weight of sludge and doom.
Kyiv's Soul Thieves play melodic heavy metal from the Ukrainian capital since 2012. Over a decade from the Dnieper capital, their spirit-stealing name has channeled the theft of consciousness into accessible, melody-driven compositions.
Belgian heavy metal act whose 2020 debut "Maelstrom of Death and Steel" earned praise for being "unselfconsciously unique whilst honoring heavy metal's iron-clad customs." Their approach blends traditional heavy metal reverence with a distinctive artistic perspective.
Souldrinker deliver melodic heavy and groove metal from Stuttgart, combining classic metal melodies with groove's rhythmic punch. Formed in 2022, they bring an intoxicating blend of accessibility and heaviness to the Swabian capital.
Soulgrind is a heavy metal band from Mesa, Arizona, active since 2010. They draw from traditional heavy metal's melodic and riff-driven foundations within Arizona's broad hard rock and metal community.
Heavy/power metal band from Arendonk in the Campine region of Antwerp province, active since 2011. Their dual-genre approach combines the melodic ambition of power metal with the riff-driven foundations of classic heavy metal.
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