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Featured Album
La Grande Mascarade - EP (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
No More Hollywood Endings (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
The Pursuit of Vikings: Live at Summer Breeze (Main Stage) (2018)
05/09 @ Coca-Cola Roxy, Atlanta
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Gossamer Wings of Illusion (2025)
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Rising Hate is a melodic death metal band from Hof in Upper Franconia, Bavaria, formed in 2010. The band delivers melodic death metal from the Bavarian city near the Czech border, over a decade of activity establishing them in the Franconian scene.
Ristridi is a melodic death/power/progressive metal band from Munich, Germany, formed in 2018. The band blends three strains of melodic and technical metal from Bavaria's capital city.
Melodic death metal band from Patras, Greece, active since 2016. Their approach channels Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal from the Peloponnese.
Ritual of Terror is a melodic death metal band from Vesanto in central Finland, formed in 2018. The band delivers melodic death metal from the rural Finnish heartland.
Melodic death metal band from Anapa on Russia's Black Sea coast, active since 2010. Their approach delivers Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal from the resort city.
Robse is a melodic death/pagan metal project from Brandenburg, Germany, formed in 2020. The project channels Germanic pagan themes through melodic death metal from the Mark Brandenburg region east of Berlin.
Room21 is a melodic death/thrash metal band from Jyväskylä in central Finland, formed in 2022. The band fuses melodic death metal with thrash velocity from the Finnish lake district.
Rosebourg is a metal band originating from Kazanlak, Bulgaria, that developed into a Sofia-based act, blending death metal, power metal, and progressive tendencies into a direct, riff-forward sound they describe simply as 'fuckin' metal'. Their debut LP 'Sweeter Than Your Love' (2020) compiled tracks from their earlier 'Godhead' EP alongside new material across eight songs.
Royal Desolation is a metalcore band from the bilingual city of Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, blending modern metal with catchy choruses, powerful riffing, and punctuated 80s synth sounds. Their pandemic-delayed debut album Puppet Dance contains 12 songs and was preceded by three singles, establishing their hook-driven approach to contemporary metalcore.
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