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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Athens-based gothic metal and symphonic metal act, active since 2022 delivering lush keyboard atmospherics layered over crushing rhythmic power. Rooted in Greece's distinctively melodic extreme metal scene, uncompromising in their vision, they deliver exactly what their audience demands.
Austin's Empyre graft symphonic ambition onto black metal's hostility, a combination that feels at home in a city where experimental extremity is never far from center stage.
Portland's Empyrean Fire entwine symphonic lushness with atmospheric black metal's vastness, building immersive soundscapes that mirror the Pacific Northwest's fog-heavy grandeur.
Symphonic metal act from Vantaa/Rekola, Finland that emerged in 2025. They bring orchestral grandeur to the Finnish metal scene.
Drawing from Nitra's musical fabric, this Slovak act forges Black Metal, Death Metal, and Symphonic Metal built on bombastic, film-score-scale compositions with genuine metallic weight. Each release demonstrates a commitment to artistic evolution.
Pioneering German romantic dark metal project from Hendungen, founded in 1996 as the first band signed to Prophecy Productions. Led by Markus Stock, Empyrium's extensive catalog from "A Wintersunset" through "Uber den Sternen" set the standard for lyrical, symphonic folk/doom metal blended with neofolk elements.
Symphonic metal project from the Upice/Jaromer area of northeastern Czech Republic, building orchestrally enriched metal compositions since 2017. Their approach layers cinematic symphonic elements over a heavy metal foundation.
Power metal and symphonic metal band from Bordeaux, France formed in 2020. They bring epic, orchestral power metal from southwestern France.
Enarmonika was a symphonic metal band from Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil, blending classical instrumentation — violin, cello — with heavy guitars, bass, and drums, and pairing growled vocals with operatic singing. The band released their debut EP "Duality" in November 2014, recorded and mixed at The Magic Place Studio in Florianópolis, drawing on members with backgrounds in classical, rock, and metal.
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