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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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When Everything Means Nothing (Cinematic) (2021)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Julian Lehmann is an independent Swiss composer who blends epic cinematic music with ethnic, folk, medieval, and metal elements. His releases including Keeper of the Wild and Home of Legends feature melodic and rhythmic compositions that merge orchestral grandeur with heavy guitar work.
Julien Martinoia is a French metal musician and composer with a career spanning two decades since 2003. His releases including A World I Created and The Insight demonstrate a sustained commitment to heavy, melodic metal compositions.
Juvaliant is a symphonic progressive power metal band from Salzburg, Austria, whose name fuses the city's Latin name Juvavum with the word valiant. Their debut album Inhuman Nature (2010) was released through Limb Music with artwork by Felipe Machado Franco, known for his work with Iced Earth and Ayreon, and addresses weighty themes of war, terror, and discrimination through dramatic orchestral metal.
Symphonic power metal band from Seville, formed in 2025 and combining orchestral grandeur with power metal's soaring melodies. Their Andalusian origins bring a southern European warmth to the typically northern European genre.
Straddling the line between power metal and symphonic metal, this Italian actfrom Lucca fuses lush keyboard atmospherics layered over crushing rhythmic power into a cohesive whole. They've been at it since 2015, and uncompromising in their vision, they deliver exactly what their audience demands.
Symphonic power/melodic death metal band from Helmstedt, Germany, active since 2011 and combining orchestral grandeur with the melodic aggression of Scandinavian-style death metal. Their compositions layer sweeping symphonic arrangements over powerful riffing and dynamic vocals.
Symphonic/melodic deathcore band from Paris, formed in 2021 with a Japanese name meaning "wrath of God." Their ambitious approach layers orchestral grandeur over crushing deathcore breakdowns.
Erlanger, Kentucky's Kaos Aeon layer symphonic orchestration over thrash and death metal foundations, a combination that makes them one of the more ambitious acts in the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky metal corridor since 2011. Big sound, big arrangements, big riffs.
Symphonic black/death metal project from Finland, active since 2013 and layering orchestral grandeur over extreme metal foundations. Their name referencing the ancient Egyptian underworld adds a mythological dimension to their symphonic extremity.
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