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Featured Album
Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Obnoxious Demos (2014)
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Featured Grindcore Album
Mentally Murdered (2019)
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Symphonic blackened death metal band from Lábatlan, Hungary, one of the country's veteran extreme acts with origins dating to 1996. Christian Epidemic has spent nearly three decades blending orchestral bombast with blasphemous aggression.
Symphonic melodic death-power metal band from Espoo, Finland, formed in 2018. They blend the melodic sensibility of Scandinavian death metal with symphonic orchestration and power metal hooks.
Symphonic power metal project from Rome, formed in 2025. Chronosynthesis blends orchestral grandeur with power metal anthems.
Folk and symphonic metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2017. They blend Greek folk traditions with symphonic metal grandeur.
Symphonic black-death metal band from Nantes, France, formed in 2021. They blend symphonic grandeur with extreme metal darkness.
Melodic death-symphonic metal band from Hanover, Germany, formed in 2020. They merge melodic death metal aggression with symphonic orchestration and cinematic grandeur.
Symphonic black metal act from Caltagirone in Catania province, Sicily, active since 2005. Circumventor has spent two decades blending orchestral grandeur with Sicilian black metal ferocity.
Gothenburg power/symphonic metal act active since 2009, crafting orchestral grandeur and soaring melodies from Sweden's second city. Their sweeping sound channels the triumphant energy of both genres.
Symphonic melodic death metal band from Vaasa, Finland, formed in 2018. They merge melodic death metal aggression with symphonic orchestration from the Ostrobothnian coast.
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