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Featured Album
Slave to the Scalpel (2021)
Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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AMENRA “De zotte morgen” (written by Zjef Vanuytsel) (2020)
05/15 @ Paribu Art - Ana Sahne, İstanbul
Featured Groove Metal Album
State Of Unrest (2023)
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Pennsylvania's Hate Moon weave symphonic grandeur into black metal's inherent coldness, creating music that's simultaneously ornate and menacing since 2017. Orchestral elements don't soften the edge here — they sharpen it.
Havenlost is a symphonic metal band from Bologna, Italy, formed in 2013. They layer orchestral grandeur over heavy metal foundations.
HavocS is a symphonic/melodic heavy metal band from Nagykáta, Hungary, formed in 2005. They layer orchestral grandeur over heavy metal foundations.
Symphonic black/doom metal act from Innsbruck, Austria, formed in 2020. Their debut album Invocation, recorded at Village Road Studios and mastered at Kalthallen Studios, delivers eight tracks of blackened doom steeped in pagan themes across a weighty forty-one minutes.
Symphonic Metal/Rock act from Forssa in Finland, active since 2013 and delivering devastating extremity. Tight compositions and aggressive delivery characterize their particular approach.
California's Heathendom formed in 2025 as a symphonic black metal project, layering orchestral grandeur over cold, dissonant riffing in the tradition of the genre's most theatrical practitioners. They're among the newest acts in the domestic symphonic black metal scene, arriving with fully formed ambition.
Heavenqueen is a progressive/symphonic metal band from Veldhoven, the Netherlands, formed in 2023. They craft intricate progressive compositions with technical ambition.
Heavenshine is a symphonic power metal/rock band from Naples, Italy, formed in 2015. They combine orchestral grandeur with power metal's soaring energy.
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