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Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Iliastrum is a symphonic/power metal band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, active since 2021 and delivering soaring melodies, epic arrangements, and powerful vocals. The project channels the grandeur and ambition of power metal.
Illusion of Clarity is a melodic progressive/power metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, active since 2004 and delivering soaring melodies, epic arrangements, and powerful vocals. The project channels the grandeur and ambition of power metal.
Illusion Suite is a progressive power metal band from Oslo, Norway, active since 2009 and delivering soaring melodies, epic arrangements, and powerful vocals. The project channels the grandeur and ambition of power metal.
Illusoria is a symphonic/melodic power metal band from Mainz, Germany, formed in 2023, pairing orchestral arrangements with soaring melodies and powerful riffing. The band represents a new generation of German symphonic power metal from the Rhineland capital.
San Carlos veterans Imagika have been fusing power metal's soaring melodics with thrash metal's technical aggression since 2007, representing the best of what the Bay Area's scene has always done well.
Imaginara is a folk/symphonic power metal band from Moscow, Russia, active since 2014 and weaving traditional folk melodies and instrumentation into heavy metal. The project bridges ancient cultural heritage with modern metal power.
Imaginature is a power/symphonic metal band from Szczytno, Poland, active since 2021 and weaving orchestral grandeur into heavy metal songwriting. The project delivers cinematic, bombastic compositions with sweeping arrangements.
Imaginery is a power metal band from Athens, Greece, active since 2020 and delivering soaring melodies, epic arrangements, and powerful vocals. The project channels the grandeur and ambition of power metal.
Imago Imperii is a symphonic power metal band from Bologna, Italy, active since 2015 and delivering soaring melodies, epic arrangements, and powerful vocals. The project channels the grandeur and ambition of power metal.
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