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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Symphonic metal institution from Linz, Austria, led by mastermind guitarist Lanvall with vocalist Sabine Edelsbacher delivering powerful performances over elaborate orchestral arrangements. With a discography spanning albums like "Myearthdream," "Solitaire," and "Dynamind" on Napalm Records, they're regarded as one of the leading bands in the symphonic metal genre.
In existence since 2017, this Oviken Heavy Metal and Power Metal outfit delivers soaring vocal melodies and triumphant guitar harmonies. Their place within the Gothenburg school's homeland speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Legendary German power metal band from Fulda, one of the genre's most celebrated acts worldwide since their founding in 1995. With a career spanning three decades, Edguy helped define the European power metal sound alongside contemporaries like Helloween and Gamma Ray.
Chesapeake, Virginia's Edolus arrived in 2023 fusing melodic death metal sweep and power metal ambition into something muscular and tuneful. A young band with an already confident grip on harmony and extremity in equal measure.
Edu Falaschi is the solo project of Eduardo Falaschi, the Brazilian vocalist best known as the frontman of Angra from 2001 to 2012 and founder of progressive metal band Almah. Launched as a solo outlet in 2016 with cover releases, the project produced its first album of original material with the concept record "Vera Cruz" in 2021, a progressive power metal work drawing on Brazilian folk influences and featuring guest appearances from Max Cavalera and forró legend Elba Ramalho.
Ego Absence is a power metal duo from São Paulo, Brazil, formed around 2014–2015 by vocalist Raphael Dantas and guitarist Guto Gabrelon. The band released their debut full-length "Serpent's Tongue" in May 2020, a 12-track record that blends classic power and heavy metal influences with South American rhythmic sensibilities.
Budapest, Hungary — power metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2014, they deal in fantasy-tinged compositions with baroque melodic sensibility. Their recordings radiate the energy of a packed festival stage.
A product of Italy's deep-rooted extreme metal underground, this Naples-based heavy metal and power metal act channels galloping double-bass rhythms and anthemic choruses. Active since 2018, uplifting harmonies and galloping rhythms form their core identity.
Denver's Einherjar Incarnate has been forging heavy and power metal since 2016, drawing on the genre's twin pillars of riff-driven muscle and soaring melodic ambition. Equal parts Iron Maiden grandiosity and bruising mid-paced attack.
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