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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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The Polish city of Wrocław serves as headquarters for this heavy metal and power metal operation, whose arsenal includes Helloween-school optimism forged in twin-guitar brilliance. The emphasis falls on melody, speed, and unapologetic triumphalism.
Skagaströnd/Akureyri, Iceland — heavy metal and power metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2020, they deal in fantasy-tinged compositions with baroque melodic sensibility. Their recordings radiate the energy of a packed festival stage.
Exploring the depths of power metal and progressive metal, this Italian outfit from Genoa has been refining their craft since 2013. Their sound hinges on odd-time signatures woven into surprisingly accessible songwriting, delivered with unwavering intensity.
Part of Italy's underrated but thriving metal community, this act channels heavy metal and power metal with a focus on operatic vocal delivery over fleet-fingered guitarwork. Formed in 2016, speed and melody coexist in carefully calibrated balance.
Straddling the line between heavy metal and power metal, this Italian actfrom Sarzana (La Spezia) fuses uplifting harmonic progressions and virtuosic instrumental interplay into a cohesive whole. They've been at it since 2012, and anthemic choruses and virtuosic solos define their approach.
Heavy metal and power metal band from Northeast England, formed in 2021. They bring epic, powerful metal from the north of England.
Power metal band from Madrid, Spain, delivering anthemic, high-energy compositions since 2015. Their name evokes freedom and adventure, capturing the spirit of their riff-driven power metal.
Power metal act from Bilbao in Spain's Basque Country, crafting triumphant, anthem-laden compositions since 2013. Their Basque-language name roots their power metal in the proud cultural identity of the Basque people.
Active in Fredrikstad since 2025, this Norwegian act forges Power Metal and Progressive Metal built on genre-bending ambition that refuses easy categorization. Their approach balances aggression with genuine musical substance.
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