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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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Rome's Stagediver blend power, speed, and thrash metal with live-show energy since 2021. Their name captures the reckless, physical commitment to heavy music that defines their approach.
Milan's Star Crossed merge power, progressive, and thrash metal since 2020. Their Shakespeare-borrowed name of doomed fate adds literary weight to their multi-genre approach from Italy's largest city.
Saint Petersburg's Starbreeze pair symphonic and power metal from the cultural capital since 2013. Their celestial-wind name channels the gentle force of stellar currents into orchestral compositions of anthemic grandeur.
Verona's Stargate deliver power and progressive metal from the Venetian plains since 2026. Their science-fiction name channels cosmic themes through technically ambitious compositions from the city of Romeo and Juliet.
Stockholm's Starlight pair speed and power metal from the Swedish capital since 2021. Their stellar-illumination name channels the radiance of distant suns into compositions of high-velocity, anthemic intensity.
Saint Petersburg's Starvelum pair symphonic and power metal from the cultural capital since 2014. Their star-veil name channels the gossamer fabric between observer and cosmos into orchestral compositions of celestial ambition.
Statue forge progressive heavy, power, and thrash metal from Kerava in the Helsinki metropolitan area, building ambitious compositions that combine three classic metal styles. Formed in 2023, they bring monumental, statue-like grandeur to the Finnish scene.
Steel Revenge deliver speed and power metal from the medieval castle town of Jagsthausen in Baden-Wurttemberg, channeling knightly vengeance through high-velocity compositions. Emerging in 2025, they bring historical fury to the Hohenlohe region.
Steelbourne forge power metal from Aarhus, channeling the genre's anthemic grandeur from Denmark's second city. Formed in 2021, they bring steel-forged compositions to the Jutland power metal scene.
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