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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
Featured Power Metal Album
No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Athens-based symphonic power metal act active since 2022, 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.
Swiss folk metal band from Palezieux, gathered to tell grim and bloody tales in an epic, melodic fashion. Their releases including "Greed of a King" and "The Ire of the Condemned" deliver narrative-driven folk metal rooted in storytelling tradition.
Finnish death metal and grindcore band from Helsinki, formed in 2025. They deliver battle-shocked death-grind from the Finnish capital.
NWOBHM heavy metal band from Sunderland, active since 2022. They carry forward the legacy of the original New Wave of British Heavy Metal with riff-driven, classic-styled anthems.
Battlechain is a São Paulo heavy/power metal one-man project by Kexo, a veteran of the Brazilian metal scene with prior work in Infamous Glory, Abske Fides, and Death By Starvation. Launched in 2021, the project is dedicated to traditional heavy metal, with the debut EP Curse of the Cemetery — produced and performed entirely by Kexo at MasterBlaster Studios — emphasizing pure classic metal riffs and atmosphere over modern production.
Finnish epic heavy metal band active since 2004. With over two decades of epic compositions, they channel grandiose heavy metal with a medieval warrior spirit.
German thrash metal band from Schnaitsee in Bavaria, formed in 2008. They deliver hard-hitting thrash metal from the Bavarian countryside with unrelenting energy.
Melodic death metal outfit from Slatina, formed in 2011. Twin-guitar harmonies and soaring lead work temper the brutality of blast beats and growled vocals, creating compositions that are both punishing and anthemic.
German heavy metal band from Aachen, formed in 2015. They play classic heavy metal from the westernmost corner of Germany, near the borders of Belgium and the Netherlands.
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