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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
The Bestiary (2025)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Dial Tone (2022)
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Urbino-based symphonic metal act active since 2024, 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.
Osijek-based melodic death metal/metalcore act active since 2014, blending Gothenburg-inspired guitar harmonies with metalcore's dynamic structures and breakdown-driven intensity. Their sound bridges the melodic death metal tradition with modern extreme metal's visceral energy.
Finnish symphonic black metal band from Helsinki, formed in 2017. They pair orchestral grandeur with black metal ferocity from the Finnish capital.
London symphonic black/groove metal band formed in 2022, creating a fusion of modern black and death metal with epic cinematic melodies. Their 2023 debut album Who Will Live to Tell the Tale pairs a wall-of-sound metal approach with orchestral grandeur inspired by Nordic metal and film score composers.
Spanish symphonic black metal band from Huelva, formed in 2013. They pair orchestral grandiosity with black metal ferocity from the Atlantic coast of Andalusia.
Death/thrash outfit from Utrecht Province, bridging two pillars of extreme metal. Their sound channels the raw energy of 1980s thrash through death metal's heavier lens, pairing aggressive vocals with riff-centric compositions.
Melodic black metal outfit from Sweden, formed in 2017. Layers of orchestration and twin-guitar harmonies elevate their compositions beyond standard black metal into more expansive territory.
Benevento-based deathcore act active since 2022, fusing death metal's guttural extremity with metalcore's breakdown-heavy dynamics and modern production aesthetics. Their compositions alternate between blasting intensity and crushing, floor-dropping breakdowns.
Trondheim-based melodic black/death metal act active since 2018, threading sweeping melodies through a framework of extreme metal aggression. Their sound occupies the intersection where tremolo-picked black metal atmospherics meet death metal's guttural weight.
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