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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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Glasgow noise and black metal project whose prolific output includes Rotten Pose (released on tape through Tour De Garde), N.K. Ultra, and Semtexejaculate. Their evolution from raw black metal into abrasive power electronics reflects a restless creative vision.
Bollnäs power metal outfit delivering anthemic, keyboard-driven European power metal in the tradition of HammerFall and Sabaton. Their polished, arena-ready sound has made them one of Sweden's more prominent power metal exports.
Power metal outfit from Athens, formed in 2003. Their sound combines high-register vocals with twin-guitar harmonies and double-bass drumming in the grand tradition of melodic heavy metal.
German melodic power metal band from Stuttgart, formed in 2016. They deliver soaring melodic power metal with anthemic choruses and precision guitar work.
Finnish heavy/power metal band from Seinäjoki, formed in 2018. They deliver anthemic heavy and power metal from the Ostrobothnian plains.
Finnish melodic death/power metal band from Helsinki, formed in 2021. Founded by the late Alexi Laiho as his project after Children of Bodom, they continue his legacy of virtuosic melodic extreme metal.
Heavy metal outfit from Skopje, formed in 2022. Their material channels the spirit of iron-fisted riffing and anthemic songwriting that has defined heavy metal since its inception.
Czech metal band from Sokolov, formed in 2010, whose style has evolved from power metal origins toward a heavier groove metal direction. This stylistic shift reflects the band's restless creative development over more than a decade.
German grindcore and powerviolence band from Berlin, formed in 2023. They deliver short, violent blasts of grinding powerviolence from the capital.
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