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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/07 @ Gramercy Theatre, New York
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Tragedy of Mine from Osnabrück blend metalcore's rhythmic intensity with melodic death metal's soaring leads, creating emotionally personal compositions since 2018. Their introspective name signals a sound built on confessional intensity from the Westphalian city of peace.
Tragic Cause from Hamburg and Wacken — the legendary festival village — deliver thrash metal crossover with the fury of Germany's thrash heritage since 2011. Their connection to Wacken places them at the symbolic heart of European metal culture.
Madison, Wisconsin's Tragic Death have been crafting melodic black metal with a cold, atmospheric intensity since 2012, drawing on Scandinavian influences while maintaining a distinctly North American bleakness.
Newly formed in Saint Joseph, Missouri in 2026, Tragic Fate bring a metalcore approach to a city that tends to fly under the radar of the genre's circuit, channeling emotional intensity into heavy, structured arrangements.
Intense Heavy Metal / Hard Rock out of Texas.
Bath, New York progressive metal project Tragic Heights formed in 2024, bringing an ambitious and compositionally complex approach to the genre from a small upstate New York community.
One-man medieval black metal project from Franco da Rocha, São Paulo, formed in 2022, with all music and lyrics written by the sole member Dracul. The debut demo Minha Hora Chegará, released July 22, 2022, contains six tracks including "Dies Irae," "Criaturas da Noite," and the Art Malefica-composed closer "O Ancestral."
Tragodia is a gothic/progressive metal band from Brescia in Lombardy, active since 2007. Their Greek name, meaning 'tragedy,' captures the dramatic and emotionally complex nature of their gothic-tinged progressive metal.
Tragoidia is a black metal band from Agrigento, Sicily, active since 1997. With nearly three decades of activity, they are one of the oldest black metal acts in western Sicily, channeling the island's ancient Greek heritage through extreme music.
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