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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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AMENRA "Vanuytsel 7"" (2021)
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Rehab (24-bit HD Audio, Bonus Tracks Version) (2023)
05/25 @ The Theater at MGM National Harbor, National Harbor
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Guadaña is a heavy metal and power metal band from Puerto Real in Cádiz, Spain, active since 1999, with a deep catalog including albums Tambores de Guerra, En Carne Viva, Culpables, and Balear. Their extensive body of work spanning over two decades reflects a commitment to heavy, riff-driven Spanish-language metal.
Guardians of Time is a power metal band from Kristiansand, formed in 2018. They deliver epic power metal from the southern Norwegian coast.
Guernica is a heavy/power metal band from Kolin, Czech Republic, formed in 2023, bringing European-style power metal to the Central Bohemian region. The band is in the early stages of establishing their presence in the Czech metal scene.
Guitar Heroes is a power metal and heavy metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2016, delivering guitar-driven anthemic metal with the soaring energy and melodic precision the power metal genre demands. Their sound celebrates the instrument at the heart of heavy metal.
Gun Barrel is a heavy/power metal band from Cologne, Germany, formed in 2001, delivering classic German-style power metal with heavy metal grit from the Rhineland. The band has built over two decades of traditional metal output.
Gunsen is a melodic death and power metal band from Toruń, Poland, active since 2016 and blending melodic death metal's aggression with power metal's soaring energy from the historic Vistula city. The project bridges two melodic extremes of the metal spectrum.
New Jersey's Hades has one of the longer journeys in underground U.S. metal — from power and heavy metal roots to a full thrash conversion, the Paramus band traces a lineage back to the early days of East Coast extremity while remaining active through the present.
Goregrind act from Macclesfield in Cheshire, active since 2023. Their clinical name promises the medical-horror extremity that goregrind demands, delivered from the English northwest.
Power metal band from Ciudad Real, Spain, active since 2010. Their soaring melodies and epic arrangements carry the European power metal tradition from the heart of La Mancha.
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