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Featured Album
Infinite Terror (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
With Fang and Claw (2025)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Drowned in my Loneliness (2008)
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Rotterdam heavy/power metal act formed in 2014, delivering melodic grandeur and anthemic compositions from the Netherlands' second city. Their soaring approach channels the triumphant energy of the power metal tradition.
Heavy metal/hard rock band from Veghel, the Netherlands, active since 2015. Their approach delivers classic heavy metal from the North Brabant town.
Ravenhell is a thrash/heavy metal band from Madrid, Spain, formed in 2014. The band delivers aggressive thrash with heavy metal foundations from the Spanish capital.
Heavy metal band from Lisbon, Portugal, active since 2012. Their knightly name accompanies traditional heavy metal from the Portuguese capital.
Heavy metal band from Kingscourt, County Cavan, Ireland, active since 2012. Their approach delivers traditional heavy metal from the rural Irish midlands.
Raw Diamond is a heavy metal band from Alunda, Sweden, formed in 2019. The band delivers straightforward, no-frills heavy metal from the Swedish countryside east of Uppsala.
Rawsoil is a Finnish southern metal band formed in 2014, bringing an unlikely but distinctive southern rock-inflected metal sound to the Nordic landscape. The project's unusual genre choice for a Finnish act gives them a unique position in the scene.
Rax Load is a heavy metal band from Copenhagen, Denmark, formed in 2022. The band delivers traditional heavy metal from the Scandinavian capital's underground scene.
Heavy/thrash metal band from Olsztyn, Poland, active since 2014. Their approach combines heavy metal with thrash aggression from the Warmian-Masurian capital.
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