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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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A Tampa black metal act with roots going back to 2003, Element of Eclipse carries the legacy of Florida's extreme metal scene into the black metal underground, two decades deep and still active.
Washington State's Element of Fate bring sweeping orchestration to traditional heavy metal, pairing symphonic grandeur with classic metal structures in a project formed in 2022 that aims squarely for the epic.
Heavy metal band from Dublin, Ireland with roots going back to 1996. They are among the longest-running heavy metal acts in the Irish scene.
Power metal act from Trinec in the Czech Republic's Silesian corner, freshly formed in 2025 with an elemental approach to melodic, anthem-driven metal. Their name suggests a sound built from the fundamental forces of the genre.
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Selfoss, Iceland — doom metal and funeral doom metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2023, they deal in earth-shaking distortion and mournful clean passages. Mournful melodies surface between waves of suffocating heaviness.
Heavy metal and power metal band from Vantaa, Finland active since 2009. They bring melodic, powerful metal from the greater Helsinki area.
Melodic death/power metal act from the Harz mountain town of Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany, formed in 2023. Their approach merges the harmonic richness of melodic death metal with power metal's anthem-driven intensity.
Heavy metal band from Paris, France formed in 2020. They bring classic heavy metal energy from the French capital.
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