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Divine (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
Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/07 @ Gramercy Theatre, New York
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IV Luna is a progressive rock/metal band from Rome, Italy, active since 1999 and crafting ambitious, technically proficient compositions that push beyond conventional metal boundaries. The project channels progressive sophistication.
Symphonic metal band from Marseille on France's Mediterranean coast, active since 2013. Their sound layers orchestral arrangements over heavy metal from France's second-largest city.
Ivan Miladinov is a Bulgarian multi-instrumentalist from Nova Zagora, active since 2015, who began playing piano at age four and progressed through keyboards, death vocals, guitar, and drum programming by his teens. Signed to Club Inferno Entertainment in 2017, his melodic death/power metal draws from Children of Bodom, Sonata Arctica, and Dimmu Borgir, with early demos produced by Bob Katsionis.
Ivan Spelljack Jitz is a heavy metal, hard rock band from Zagreb, Croatia, active since 2016 and forging classic heavy metal with conviction and power. The project channels the timeless spirit of traditional metal riffage.
Ivash is a black metal band from Bad Salzuflen, Germany, active since 2013, crafting atmospheric black metal from the spa town in the Teutoburg Forest region. The band channels the area's ancient, forested landscapes into over a decade of dark compositions.
Metalcore band from Mänttä-Vilppula in the Pirkanmaa region, formed in 2019. Their sound delivers metalcore from the central Finnish interior.
Ivje is a black metal project from Mengeš, Slovenia, active since 2012 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Slovenia black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Ivo Celmans is a industrial metal act from Latvia, active since 2024 and merging mechanical precision with heavy metal aggression. The project delivers industrial-strength extremity with cold, calculated intensity.
Ivo Petrović is a progressive metal band from Pula, Croatia, active since 2017 and crafting ambitious, technically proficient compositions that push beyond conventional metal boundaries. The project channels progressive sophistication.
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