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Featured Album
Slave to the Scalpel (2021)
Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
AMENRA “De zotte morgen” (written by Zjef Vanuytsel) (2020)
05/15 @ Paribu Art - Ana Sahne, İstanbul
Featured Groove Metal Album
State Of Unrest (2023)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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Symphonic power metal band from Valencia, Spain, formed in 2020. They create grand, orchestral metal with soaring vocals and dramatic arrangements.
Gothic and symphonic metal band from Seligenstadt, Germany. They blend orchestral grandeur and gothic atmospheres into a darkly melodic metal sound.
Celestial Theory is a symphonic melodic death metal band from Mercedes, Texas, in the Rio Grande Valley. They fuse death metal's brutality with melodic death metal's harmonic sensibility and orchestral arrangements to create layered, cinematic compositions.
Symphonic metal band from Birmingham, England, formed in 2019. They create grand, orchestral metal from the birthplace of heavy metal.
Folk and symphonic metal band from Hanover, Germany, formed in 2015. They blend traditional folk instrumentation with symphonic orchestration and heavy metal energy.
Symphonic death metal act from Blagoveshchensk on the Chinese border in Russia's Far East, active since 2016. Cellborn merges orchestral elements with death metal from one of the most remote metal scenes on Earth.
Symphonic black metal project from Tomsk, Siberia, formed in 2020. Cemeterial blends orchestral darkness with black metal from the old Siberian university city.
Symphonic death metal band from Joensuu, Finland, formed in 2022. They merge death metal aggression with symphonic orchestration from eastern Finland.
Black metal act from Battle Ground, Washington, founded in 1996 by brothers Jake and Nick Superchi, blending symphonic orchestration and dark ambient textures into their "American Deathphonic Black Metal" style; their concept album Salem 1692 and releases on labels like Moribund Records brought them recognition in the American black metal underground.
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