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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Ad Astra (2025)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Serpent & Spirit (2021)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Make It Rain / On the Other Side of Tonight (2024)
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Kraków, Poland — death metal, industrial metal, and symphonic metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2015, they deal in cinematic sweep and operatic vocals over thundering metal arrangements. Their catalog reveals a band unafraid to explore the darker corners of heavy music.
Symphonic black metal act from Barcelona, Spain led by multi-instrumentalist Efrem Quilis and vocalist Gessami Martinez. Their discography spans from a 2013 demo through 2019's Civilizations to the 2024 full-length Poimandres, exploring hermeticism and esoteric philosophy.
Pittsburgh's Entheogen laces symphonic grandeur into deathcore and death metal, building an overpowering wall of sound that juxtaposes orchestral sweep with modern extremity. Formed in 2017, they're one of the more ambitious acts in the city's underground.
Black metal and symphonic metal project from Finland, active since 2020. They merge icy black metal aggression with orchestral symphonic grandeur.
Symphonic melodic death metal band from Helsinki, Finland active since 2016, with orchestral arrangements by Mika Lumijarvi. Their EP Since Time Immemorial (2019) was mastered by Mika Jussila at Finnvox Studios.
Black, death, and symphonic metal band from Mornay-sur-Allier in central France, active since 2012. They blend symphonic grandeur with extreme metal ferocity from rural Auvergne.
Denver's Envinity have been blending symphonic grandeur with progressive metal's complexity since 2002, weaving orchestral textures and intricate arrangements into a sound that rewards patient listening.
Knoxville's Eonian pair sweeping symphonic orchestration with melodic death metal's twin-guitar ferocity, crafting cinematic extremity from the Appalachian foothills since 2021.
New York City's Ephemera bend avant-garde experimentation into black metal's skeletal framework, producing disorienting, boundary-pushing music from the Brooklyn underground since 2018.
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