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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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Heavy/power metal band from Crete, Greece, formed in 2024. Their Tolkien-referencing name accompanies classic heavy and power metal from the Mediterranean island.
Melodic power metal band from Rome, Italy, active since 2014. Their approach delivers melody-driven anthemic power metal from the Italian capital.
Thrash/power metal band from Sunderland, England, active since 2010. Their long-running project blends thrash aggression with power metal's anthemic energy from the Wearside city.
Rising Glory is a heavy/power metal and hard rock band from Mönchengladbach in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, formed in 2025. The band brings classic heavy metal anthems and power metal energy to the Lower Rhine region.
Rising Storm is a power metal band from Neubrandenburg in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, formed in 2013. The band delivers epic power metal from the northeastern German lake district, one of the country's least densely populated regions.
Ristridi is a melodic death/power/progressive metal band from Munich, Germany, formed in 2018. The band blends three strains of melodic and technical metal from Bavaria's capital city.
Heavy/power metal band from Pijnacker, the Netherlands, active since 2017. Their approach delivers anthemic heavy and power metal from the South Holland town.
Rizon is a melodic heavy and power metal band from Dübendorf near Zürich, Switzerland, formed in 2014. The band delivers soaring melodies and powerful dual-guitar work in the classic European power metal tradition.
Melodic power metal solo artist from Tula, Russia, active since 2017. The project delivers anthemic, melody-driven power metal from the central Russian city south of Moscow.
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