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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Serpent & Spirit (2021)
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Conquer (feat. Josh Mowery of Catch Your Breath) (2025)
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Dynazty is a heavy and power metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, formed in 2023. The project delivers soaring heavy and power metal from the Swedish capital.
Dyryth is a power metal band from the Raahe/Oulu area of Finland, formed in 2024. They deliver northern Finnish power metal.
Dyslesia is a melodic power metal band from Lyon, France, formed in 2019. They deliver melodic power metal from southeastern France.
The Polish city of Wrocław serves as headquarters for this heavy metal and power metal operation, whose arsenal includes Helloween-school optimism forged in twin-guitar brilliance. The emphasis falls on melody, speed, and unapologetic triumphalism.
Skagaströnd/Akureyri, Iceland — heavy metal and power metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2020, they deal in fantasy-tinged compositions with baroque melodic sensibility. Their recordings radiate the energy of a packed festival stage.
Exploring the depths of power metal and progressive metal, this Italian outfit from Genoa has been refining their craft since 2013. Their sound hinges on odd-time signatures woven into surprisingly accessible songwriting, delivered with unwavering intensity.
Part of Italy's underrated but thriving metal community, this act channels heavy metal and power metal with a focus on operatic vocal delivery over fleet-fingered guitarwork. Formed in 2016, speed and melody coexist in carefully calibrated balance.
Straddling the line between heavy metal and power metal, this Italian actfrom Sarzana (La Spezia) fuses uplifting harmonic progressions and virtuosic instrumental interplay into a cohesive whole. They've been at it since 2012, and anthemic choruses and virtuosic solos define their approach.
Heavy metal and power metal band from Northeast England, formed in 2021. They bring epic, powerful metal from the north of England.
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