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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)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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Melodic death metal band from Leeds, England, formed in 2022. Their approach channels Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal from West Yorkshire.
Ruin of Remembrance is a melodic death metal band from Braubach on the Rhine in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, active since 2012. The band weaves melodic death metal from the scenic middle Rhine valley, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Melodic death metal band from Birmingham, England, formed in 2021. Named after the legendary Forest of Arden, their approach delivers melodic death metal from the city that birthed heavy metal.
Ruins of Humanity is a melodic death metal band from Vaasa on the west coast of Finland, active since 2016. The band delivers melodic death metal from the bilingual Ostrobothnian coast.
Rump-fed Ronyon is a melodic death metal and deathcore band from Trier in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, active since 2011. Named after an insult from Shakespeare's Macbeth, the band delivers extreme metal from Germany's oldest city.
Run by Witches is a melodic death metal band from Kamenz in Saxony, Germany, formed in 2024. The band channels melodic death metal from the Lusatian region of eastern Germany.
Ruoja is a melodic death metal band from Joensuu in eastern Finland, formed in 2018. Named from a Finnish word meaning roughly 'scum,' the band delivers melodic death metal from North Karelia.
Melodic death metal band from Islandmagee, Northern Ireland, active since 2019. Their approach delivers melodic death metal from the remote Antrim peninsula.
Rusted Nail is a melodic death metal band from Moscow, Russia, active since 2019. Their sound features powerful growling vocals, aggressive guitar riffs, masterful keyboards, and bright guitar solos across releases like 'And Fate Is Sealed' and 'Doomed.'
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