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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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Rose Avalon is a symphonic power metal band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2020. The band delivers orchestral, epic power metal from the Catalan capital's diverse metal landscape.
Rosebourg is a metal band originating from Kazanlak, Bulgaria, that developed into a Sofia-based act, blending death metal, power metal, and progressive tendencies into a direct, riff-forward sound they describe simply as 'fuckin' metal'. Their debut LP 'Sweeter Than Your Love' (2020) compiled tracks from their earlier 'Godhead' EP alongside new material across eight songs.
Symphonic power metal band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, formed in 2020. Named after the Scottish chapel famous for its mysterious carvings, their approach layers orchestral grandeur over power metal from Russia's cultural capital.
Rough Silk is a melodic heavy/power metal band from Hanover, Germany, formed in 2025. The band delivers polished, melodic power metal from the capital of Lower Saxony.
Royal Hunt is a neoclassical power/progressive metal band from Copenhagen, Denmark, active since the early 1990s with renewed Bandcamp presence from 2020 via NorthPoint Productions. Their 2020 concept album Dystopia - Part 1 features symphonic, progressive compositions wrapped in accessible format with rock opera elements and extraordinary guest vocalists.
Royal Jester is a power metal band from Umeå, Sweden, active since 2015. The band brings soaring, anthemic power metal to northern Sweden, channeling the melodic traditions of European power metal.
Power/progressive metal band from Athens, Greece, active since 2015. Their approach combines anthemic power metal with progressive complexity from the Greek capital.
Rubén Álvarez is a heavy/power metal solo artist from Madrid, Spain, active since 2009. The project delivers virtuoso-driven heavy and power metal from the Spanish capital.
Austrian heavy and power metal band who appeared on the 1991 split compilation Rock from the Heart of Europe alongside Classica and Majesty, released on Breakin' Records. The band draw on a range of classic rock and metal influences and have maintained an active presence in the Central European rock and metal scene.
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