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Featured Album
La Grande Mascarade - EP (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
No More Hollywood Endings (2025)
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The Pursuit of Vikings: Live at Summer Breeze (Main Stage) (2018)
05/13 @ Fox Theatre Detroit, Detroit
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Gossamer Wings of Illusion (2025)
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Pisa-based power metal and progressive metal act, active since 2008 delivering technical virtuosity in service of expansive, cinematic narratives. Rooted in the Mediterranean peninsula's diverse metal ecosystem, their sound resists easy categorization, blending influences into something distinctly their own.
Progressive metal band from Toulouse, France formed in 2002, featuring vocalist Laurent Mora and a five-piece lineup. Their 2014 album Your Wandering Ghost was recorded at Studio Antistatic in Toulouse.
Death metal, power metal, and progressive metal band from Tournan-en-Brie near Paris, France active since 2013. They blend progressive ambition with extreme metal intensity from the Ile-de-France region.
Progressive metal act from Murnau in Upper Bavaria, Germany, formed in 2024, building intricate compositions from the foothills of the Alps. Their approach brings technical ambition and structural complexity to the Bavarian metal scene.
Progressive metal project from France launched in 2019. They deliver intricate, forward-thinking progressive metal.
The Slovak city of Prešov serves as headquarters for this metalcore, power metal, and progressive metal operation, whose arsenal includes Opeth-school dynamics married to modern progressive sensibility. Each release demonstrates a commitment to artistic evolution.
Avant-garde progressive/heavy metal and hard rock act from Frankfurt am Main, Germany, pushing the boundaries of heavy music since 2013. Their approach blends experimental composition with the power of traditional metal and hard rock.
A product of Italy's deep-rooted extreme metal underground, this Turin-based death metal and progressive metal act channels Opeth-school dynamics married to modern progressive sensibility. Active since 2017, the combination of influences yields something more interesting than any single genre label implies.
Emerging from Sassari, this Italian act forges Progressive Metal built on genre-bending ambition that refuses easy categorization. Their approach balances aggression with genuine musical substance.
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