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Featured Album
People Watching (2024)
Featured Groove Metal Album
L'Enfant Sauvage (Special Edition) (2012)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
The Necrotic Manifesto (Bonus Tracks Edition) (2023)
11/14 @ The Majestic Ventura Theater, Ventura
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Among the Shadows (2024)
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Firestrikes is a melodic heavy metal band from Žilov, Czech Republic, formed in 2018. The band crafts melodically driven heavy metal with an emphasis on harmony and accessible songwriting.
FireSword is a melodic black metal band from Palma, Mallorca, Spain, formed in 2014. The band channels melodic black metal from the Balearic island capital.
Firetag is a heavy metal and thrash metal band from Vienna, Austria, with material distributed via the Bandcamp handle "firetalk." They operate within the classic heavy/thrash metal tradition, writing aggressive, riff-forward material rooted in the old-school European scene.
Firetower is a thrash metal band from Chelyabinsk in the Ural Mountains, active since 1996. Nearly three decades of thrash metal from the industrial city on the Europe-Asia boundary make them one of the longest-running extreme acts in the Urals.
Firevolt is a stoner metal/hard rock band from Vaasa, Finland, formed in 2017. The band channels heavy stoner grooves and hard rock energy from the Ostrobothnian coast.
Firewall is a stoner metal/rock band from Oulu, Finland, active since 2003. With over two decades of activity, the band has been a reliable presence in the Finnish stoner metal scene.
Firewatcher is a pagan black metal project that began as ambient in Poland in 2020 before relocating to Saskatchewan. Their evolution from ambient soundscapes to pagan black metal traces a journey both musical and geographical, bridging Polish and Canadian extreme metal traditions.
Firewind is a heavy/power metal band from Thessaloniki, Greece, delivering energetic power metal rooted in the European tradition since 2019. The project channels the Hellenic power metal tradition from Greece's northern capital.
Firezone is a heavy/power metal band from Opava, Czech Republic, formed in 2011. The band delivers energetic heavy and power metal from the Silesian region of the Czech Republic.
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