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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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Athens-based symphonic power metal act active since 2022, pairing soaring vocal performances with orchestral keyboard arrangements and galloping double-bass percussion. Their anthemic compositions draw from the European power metal tradition of bombastic, larger-than-life heavy metal.
Finnish melodic power metal band from Turku, active since 2007. They deliver dragon-slaying melodic power metal from Finland's former capital.
Folk/power metal band from Perth, Scotland, formed in 2012. They merge folk melodies and storytelling with the driving energy and soaring arrangements of power metal.
Athens-based epic power metal act active since 2014, crafting heroic compositions that blend galloping riffs with folk-influenced melodies and larger-than-life choruses. Their music channels the spirit of sword-and-sorcery through anthemic heavy metal.
German heavy/power metal band from Nuremberg, formed in 2025. They represent a brand-new entry in Nuremberg's storied metal tradition.
German power/heavy metal band from Pforzheim, formed in 2020. They craft anthemic power metal with heavy metal muscle from the Black Forest region of Baden-Württemberg.
Finnish heavy/power metal and hard rock band from Helsinki, formed in 2017. Founded by former Battle Beast guitarist Anton Kabanen, they deliver arena-ready power metal anthems with a cinematic edge.
Finnish power metal band from Kotka, active since 2004. With over two decades of frosty power metal, they are a veteran of the southeastern Finnish metal scene.
Spanish heavy/power metal band from Leganés near Madrid, formed in 2019. They craft blade-sharp heavy and power metal from the southern outskirts of the capital.
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