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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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German death metal, hardcore, and powerviolence band from Berlin, formed in 2020. They fuse three aggressive genres into a short, violent sonic assault.
Power metal outfit from Xanthi, formed in 2017. Their sound combines high-register vocals with twin-guitar harmonies and double-bass drumming in the grand tradition of melodic heavy metal.
Nottingham-based grindcore/powerviolence outfit active since 2015, dealing in short, violent compositions that careen between blasting speed and crushing slow sections. Their confrontational approach strips heavy music to its most aggressive core.
Saransk-based power metal act active since 2012, delivering anthemic heavy metal built on soaring vocals, galloping rhythms, and melodic guitar leads. Their compositions embrace the genre's tradition of epic songwriting and technical proficiency.
Czech power metal band from Trutnov, formed in 2005. They deliver soaring, anthemic power metal with over two decades of experience in the Czech scene.
Zagreb-based power metal act active since 2021, delivering anthemic heavy metal built on soaring vocals, galloping rhythms, and melodic guitar leads. Their compositions embrace the genre's tradition of epic songwriting and technical proficiency.
Heavy/power/thrash metal band from Vannes in Brittany, formed in 2024. Their debut Waiting for the End is an eleven-track album of groove-inflected death-thrash with tracks like Prophet's Razor Blade and Trip In Hell spanning over fifty minutes of relentless heaviness.
Spanish heavy/power metal band from Cerdanyola del Vallès near Barcelona, formed in 2015. They forge bronze-cast heavy and power metal from the Catalan suburbs.
German heavy/power metal band from Krefeld, active since 2003. With over two decades of output, they are a seasoned force in the Lower Rhine power metal scene.
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