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Eihwar is a French pagan folk and electronic duo from Toulouse, formed in 2023 by Asrunn and Mark. The project combines Nordic folk vocals, ritual chanting, shamanic percussion, and electronic trance production into what the band describes as 'Viking War Trance.' Despite their recent formation, they released the album Ragnarök in 2023 on Season of Mist and have performed at major European festivals including Wacken Open Air and Hellfest.
Pagan black metal act from the Oberhausen/Bottrop area of Germany's Ruhr region, channeling Norse mythology through raw black metal since 2014. Named after the stag in Norse cosmology that stands atop Valhalla, their sound carries the weight of ancient Germanic paganism.
Practitioners of death metal and thrash metal, this Polish outfit from Białystok has been refining their craft since 2024. Their sound hinges on suffocating heaviness anchored by rumbling low-end, delivered with raw determination.
Symphonic metal band from Montpellier, France active since 2003. Their extensive five-album discography includes Face Your Demons and Darker Chapter, building over two decades of orchestral metal from southern France.
Depressive black metal project from the Baltic coastal city of Stralsund in northeastern Germany, formed in 2025. Their name, meaning "a cold gust of wind" in German, captures the bleak, wind-swept atmosphere of their northern German depressive black metal.
Ein Schwarzes Kreuz — German for "a black cross" — formed in Sacramento in 2021, channeling a cold and austere brand of black metal that leans into the genre's more ceremonial and oppressive traditions.
Einar Solberg is a Norwegian progressive metal and art-rock vocalist, keyboardist, and composer best known as the voice of Leprous, with solo work that expands his dramatic and cinematic side. Coming from Notodden's heavy progressive environment, Solberg helped shape Leprous through elastic vocals, keyboard-centered composition, and a willingness to move between metal intensity and fragile restraint. His solo debut 16 turned personal memory into a guest-heavy progressive project, while Vox Occulta pushed toward a darker, more orchestral identity with heavy passages, wide dynamics, and symphonic ambition. Solberg fits metal-adjacent scope through his central role in progressive metal and through solo music that still carries heavy arrangements, odd structures, and a high-intensity vocal language. His singing is the defining instrument: controlled falsetto, full-voice peaks, rhythmic phrasing, and sudden emotional exposure all function as compositional tools. The solo material does not simply repeat Leprous, but it shares a concern with tension, release, and finely shaped drama. Einar Solberg's work stands where progressive metal, chamber-like art rock, and deeply personal songwriting meet.
Heavy metal and thrash band from Kent, England active since 2017. They deliver powerful, riff-driven metal from southeastern England.
Progressive thrash metal band from Moscow, Russia active since 2015. Their Dutch-city name belies Russian origins, delivering thrash metal with progressive complexity from the Moscow metal underground.
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