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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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Laying down tracks since 2024, this Power Metal and Symphonic Metal outfit delivers orchestral grandeur married to heavy guitar-driven foundations. Their place within Poland's relentlessly productive underground speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Straddling the line between black metal and symphonic metal, this Italian actfrom Milan fuses lush keyboard atmospherics layered over crushing rhythmic power into a cohesive whole. They've been at it since 2019, and their sound resists easy categorization, blending influences into something distinctly their own.
Portuguese symphonic heavy/gothic metal band from Lisbon with a discography spanning On Light And Wrath, Mother Hope, Cerberus, and the 2024 orchestral reimagining Symphony of Cerberus on Inverse Records. Their female-fronted sound blends progressive metal complexity with gothic atmosphere across twelve orchestral arrangements.
California's Encrypted bring orchestral grandeur and cinematic sweep to symphonic metal, a genre-first project launched in 2024 with an ear for drama and scale. Still early in their trajectory, they're building something ambitious from the ground up.
Symphonic metal act from Gemund in the Eifel region of western Germany, crafting orchestrally enriched metal since 2008. Their name captures the grand, climactic quality of their symphonic compositions.
Black, gothic, and symphonic metal band from Thessaloniki, Greece launched in 2024. They fuse multiple dark metal styles from northern Greece.
Power metal and symphonic metal band from Joensuu in eastern Finland, formed in 2022. They bring epic, soaring metal from the heart of Finnish Karelia.
Symphonic power metal band from Turgi, Switzerland, crafting epic, orchestrally enriched compositions since 2011. Their Tolkien-inspired name reflects a taste for fantasy themes delivered through sweeping symphonic arrangements and powerful vocals.
Firmly rooted in symphonic metal, this Greek actfrom Athens delivers lush keyboard atmospherics layered over crushing rhythmic power without compromise. They've been at it since 2014, and their sound resists easy categorization, blending influences into something distinctly their own.
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