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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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Finnish symphonic black metal band from Helsinki, formed in 2017. They pair orchestral bombast with black metal fury from the Finnish capital.
Spanish deathcore band from Madrid, formed in 2011, whose sound evolved from technical deathcore toward symphonic deathcore. Their stylistic shift reflects an increasingly epic and orchestral approach to extremity.
Spanish symphonic death metal band from Toledo, formed in 2022. They layer Egyptian-themed symphonic grandeur over death metal from the ancient Castilian city.
Kazan-based symphonic death metal act active since 2017, 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.
Nizhny Tagil-based death/doom metal act active since 2024, merging crushing heaviness with funereal tempos and mournful atmospheres. Their compositions unfold with deliberate patience, layering guttural vocals over glacially paced riffs that evoke profound desolation.
London-based folk metal act active since 2008, weaving traditional melodies and acoustic instrumentation into a heavy metal framework. Their compositions bridge musical heritage with the power of electric amplification.
Finnish symphonic/melodic death/pagan metal band from Helsinki, formed in 2019. They layer symphonic grandeur and pagan themes over melodic death metal foundations for an epic, cinematic sound.
Truro-based symphonic metal act active since 2018, 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.
Czech symphonic gothic metal band from Havířov, formed in 2019. They blend orchestral arrangements and gothic atmosphere with heavy metal instrumentation for an elaborate, theatrical sound.
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