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Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Dance Devil Dance (Live at Sonic Temple) (2024)
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Death metal band from Thessaloniki, Greece active since 2011. They bring brutal death metal from northern Greece.
Black/death metal band from Barcelona, Spain formed in 1996, boasting a deep catalog of ten releases including Goatworshipping Metal and Psalms of Plagues and Cult of Death. Their extensive discography spans nearly three decades of unrelenting extreme metal darkness.
Doom metal project from Sabadell, Spain launched in 2021, drawing deeply from Tolkien-inspired dark fantasy imagery. Their releases Palantir's Quest and The March of the Undead channel the atmosphere of Mirkwood's fortress through slow, heavy doom.
Black metal project from Alken, Belgium, taking its name from Tolkien's Ash Mountains in Mordor, active since 2014. Their fantasy-inspired black metal draws from Middle-earth mythology to fuel dark, atmospheric compositions.
Salt Lake City atmospheric black metal project named for the Shadowy Mountains of Tolkien's First Age, Ered Wethrin conjures vast, wind-swept epics from Utah's high desert that feel genuinely ancient and mythic.
Heavy metal band from Decin in northern Bohemia, Czech Republic, delivering riff-driven power since 2017. Their fantasy-inspired name hints at an epic quality to their traditional heavy metal approach.
Brutal death metal band from Arelaune-en-Seine in Normandy, France, active since 2001. With over two decades of history, they are veterans of the French brutal death metal scene.
Progressive metal and rock act from Cheb in western Bohemia, Czech Republic, blending technical complexity with melodic accessibility. Their approach bridges the cerebral depth of progressive metal with the broader appeal of progressive rock.
Thrash/groove metal act from Brunswick in Lower Saxony, Germany, blending thrash speed with groove metal's rhythmic punch since 2018. Their approach delivers heavy, riff-driven compositions from one of Lower Saxony's major cities.
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