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Featured Album
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)
05/15 @ Palladium Times Square, New York City
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German symphonic black metal band from Marktredwitz, formed in 2023. They pair orchestral bombast with black metal ferocity for an epic, dramatic sound from Franconia.
Moscow-based doom metal act active since 2015, crafting monolithic compositions built on slow-burning riffs and an atmosphere of pervasive heaviness. Their patient approach to songwriting lets each chord ring with crushing finality.
Severodvinsk-based symphonic death metal act active since 2010, augmenting their extreme metal foundation with orchestral arrangements and cinematic scope. Their music pairs death metal's visceral aggression with lush keyboard orchestration and epic compositional ambition.
Turin-based symphonic power metal act active since 2012, pairing soaring vocal performances with orchestral keyboard arrangements and galloping double-bass percussion. Their anthemic compositions draw from the European power metal tradition of bombastic, larger-than-life heavy metal.
Spanish symphonic metal band from Logroño in La Rioja, formed in 2013. They layer orchestral grandeur over heavy metal from the wine country of northern Spain.
Symphonic melodic death metal act from Vienna, Austria, formed in 2018. Their concept album "Dream" weaves atmospheric storytelling through intricate solos and symphonic arrangements, drawing comparisons to Wintersun and Aether Realm.
Italian symphonic metal act active since 2015, building their sound on lush orchestral arrangements, soaring vocals, and cinematic compositions. Their music draws from the European symphonic metal tradition of epic, larger-than-life heavy music.
French symphonic black/death metal band from the Grand Est region, formed in 2013. They layer orchestral arrangements over extreme metal from eastern France.
German symphonic metal band from Voerde, formed in 2013. They layer orchestral arrangements and sweeping vocals over heavy metal instrumentation.
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