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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Power metal band from Romont in the French-speaking Swiss canton of Fribourg, crafting anthemic, melodically driven compositions since 2012. Their sound channels the triumphant energy and soaring vocal lines of the European power metal tradition.
When Evenoire emerged in 2012 from Cremona, they brought with them a sound rooted in folk metal and symphonic metal — all cinematic sweep and operatic vocals over thundering metal arrangements. Their catalog reveals a band unafraid to explore the darker corners of heavy music.
Power metal band from Lyon, France active since 2008. They bring epic, soaring power metal from the Rhone-Alpes region.
A product of the tiny nation at the crossroads of Germanic and Slavic metal, this Nova Gorica-based death metal, melodic death metal, and thrash metal act channels percussive blast-beat onslaughts and cavernous production. Active since 2021, low-tuned guitars and guttural vocals form the bedrock of their attack.
Straddling the line between gothic metal and symphonic metal, this Hungarian actfrom Békéscsaba fuses lush keyboard atmospherics layered over crushing rhythmic power into a cohesive whole. They've been at it since 2014, and their sound resists easy categorization, blending influences into something distinctly their own.
Part of Holland's dense concentration of metal talent, this act channels progressive metal with a focus on labyrinthine compositions spanning multiple movements and moods. Formed in 2015, based in Amsterdam, every recording pushes a little further into uncharted sonic territory.
Heavy metal band from Elsendorf in Bavaria's Kelheim district, forging classic, riff-driven metal since 2016. Their stormy name captures the powerful, atmospheric quality of their traditional heavy metal approach.
Los Angeles progressive metal outfit Event Horizon brings the sprawling ambition of the genre to one of California's most competitive metal scenes since their 2020 formation. Their name, borrowed from the point of no return at a black hole's boundary, sets the tone for music that pursues the threshold between accessibility and the abyss.
Richmond, Virginia's Event Horizon arrived in 2020 with a melodic death metal approach that places them squarely in the tradition of Virginia's underrated extreme metal scene. Their focus on melody within a death metal framework draws on the same Swedish and Gothenburg influences that have shaped countless American acts while rooting it firmly in the mid-Atlantic.
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