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Featured Album
Where Fear And Weapons Meet (2021)
Featured Sludge Metal Album
AMENRA “De zotte morgen” (written by Zjef Vanuytsel) (2020)
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Featured Doom Metal Album
With Fang and Claw (2025)
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Dyecrest is a heavy/power metal band from Mikkeli, Finland, active since 1997. With nearly three decades of history, they are veterans of Finnish power metal.
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Dynazty is a heavy and power metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, formed in 2023. The project delivers soaring heavy and power metal from the Swedish capital.
Dyryth is a power metal band from the Raahe/Oulu area of Finland, formed in 2024. They deliver northern Finnish power metal.
Dyslesia is a melodic power metal band from Lyon, France, formed in 2019. They deliver melodic power metal from southeastern France.
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.
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