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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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Death metal band from Waremme in Wallonia, formed in 2026, evolving from death metal origins toward melodic death metal. As one of the newest acts in Belgium's extreme metal scene, they represent the continued vitality of death metal in francophone Belgium.
Spheric play melodic death metal from Brunswick, combining Scandinavian melodeath influences with their own Lower Saxon sensibility. Active since 2013, they bring spherical, encompassing heaviness to the North German melodeath scene.
Spherical blend melodic death and gothic metal from the central Finnish town of Jamsankoski, combining harmonic sophistication with dark romantic themes. Formed in 2019, they bring well-rounded darkness to the Finnish extreme scene.
Crema's Spleen Flipper weave black, death, deathcore, melodic death, and metalcore from the Cremona countryside since 2013. Their genre-spanning approach and visceral name reflect an unwillingness to be confined by stylistic boundaries.
Stained Blood evolved from melodic death metal/deathcore into a more black/melodic death metal direction from the Barcelona area, deepening their extremity while maintaining melodic sophistication. Active since 2006, they're veterans of the Catalan extreme scene.
Melodic death metal band from Brasschaat near Antwerp, active since 1998, making them one of the longer-running melodic death metal acts in Belgium. Over a quarter century of activity reflects their deep commitment to the Scandinavian-influenced melodeath sound.
Kharkiv's Starving Souls deliver melodic death metal from the war-affected eastern Ukrainian city since 2012. Over a decade from the embattled metropolis, their famished-spirit name has channeled the hunger of deprived consciousness into compositions of melodic intensity.
State of Torment deliver melodic death metal and deathcore from Bad Salzuflen in North Rhine-Westphalia, combining Scandinavian melodeath with modern breakdown-driven heaviness. Formed in 2023, they bring anguished extremity to the Lippe region.
Still a Chance Left deliver melodic death metal from Bremen, combining Scandinavian melodeath influences with a hopeful outlook suggested by their optimistic name. Formed in 2024, they bring fresh melodic intensity to the Hanseatic city.
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