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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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Parisian symphonic metal act Orkhys constructs elaborate cinematic compositions that merge orchestral bombast with heavy guitar work. Their grandiose approach favors sweeping melodies and dramatic dynamics, drawing from both the symphonic metal and film score traditions.
Colorado's Ormstunga — taking their name from Old Norse for "serpent tongue" — pair symphonic orchestration with ferocious black metal, building music that is simultaneously grandiose and venomous. Their dramatic approach has more in common with Scandinavian theater-black than the American underground.
Marseille's Ormyst fuses progressive metal's intricate time signatures with symphonic metal's orchestral sweep, resulting in ambitious compositions that shift between technical passages and cinematic grandeur. Their dual emphasis on complexity and melody sets them apart in the southern French metal scene.
Greenville, South Carolina's Orpheus Effect bring symphonic folk metal to the American Southeast with genuine orchestral ambition, pairing mythological themes with soaring arrangements that gesture toward European genre landmarks. They stand as one of the more distinctive acts in a region not typically associated with the style.
Grenoble-based Ossonor brings orchestral grandeur to the French metal scene, layering symphonic arrangements over driving guitar riffs and dramatic vocal performances. Their compositions embrace the full-scale theatricality of symphonic metal with richly textured keyboard work.
Dannemarie's Oxymorya brings symphonic metal to the Alsatian countryside, pairing ornate orchestral arrangements with powerful vocal performances and heavy guitar foundations. Their compositions embrace dramatic dynamics and cinematic scope.
Parisian symphonic metal act formed in 2020, building grand, orchestrally infused compositions from France's cultural capital. Their name -- a Greek term for the inhabited world -- reflects the universal, boundary-spanning ambition of their symphonic approach.
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