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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Featured Grindcore Album
The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Symphonic metal band from Nancy, France, active since 2012. They create grand, orchestral metal with dynamic arrangements from the Lorraine capital.
Symphonic black metal project from Lisbon, formed in 2022. Caedeous blends orchestral grandeur with Portuguese black metal ferocity.
Symphonic gothic melodic death metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2024. They blend symphonic grandeur with gothic and melodic death metal from the Greek capital.
Genre-spanning extreme metal band from Challes-les-Eaux near Chambery, France, active since 2004. Caer Ibormeith blend black metal, death metal, gothic, progressive, and symphonic elements into an ambitious, cinematic sound.
One-person symphonic post-black metal project from Bangor, Maine, active since 2018, layering orchestral ambition over atmospheric black metal foundations.
Symphonic metal band from Cologne, Germany, formed in 2016. They create grand, orchestral metal with lush arrangements and dynamic vocal performances.
Symphonic black metal project from Vienna, formed in 2019 by vocalist Prabhin Velankanny with composers Jurgen Klier and Hannes Sandrini. Their debut 'Candelabia' weaves horror stories and gothic narratives through orchestral arrangements layered over aggressive extreme metal.
Longmont, Colorado symphonic/melodic death metal act blending orchestral grandeur with aggressive death metal attack.
Symphonic gothic death metal act from Štúrovo, Slovakia, near the Hungarian border, formed in 2025. Canvasser delivers orchestral extreme metal from the Danube frontier.
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