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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 metal project from Varaždin, Croatia, formed in 2017. Core of Creation weaves orchestral arrangements and soaring melodies into a polished heavy metal framework.
Symphonic power metal act from Ivanovo, formed in 2019. Cotos delivers orchestral, anthem-driven power metal from central Russia.
Symphonic black-doom metal band from England, formed in 2022. They weave symphonic grandeur through darkened doom-black metal.
Symphonic power metal act from Bratislava, formed in 2017. Courthouse delivers orchestral, anthem-driven power metal from the Slovak capital.
Symphonic metal band from Dortmund, Germany, formed in 2023. They create grand, orchestral metal with lush arrangements from the Ruhr Valley.
Iconic British extreme metal band from Ipswich, one of the most commercially successful extreme metal acts in history. Cradle of Filth blend black metal, death metal, gothic horror, and symphonic grandeur into a theatrical, unmistakable sound.
Folk and symphonic metal band from the Bologna and Ravenna area, formed in 2017. Cremisi weaves folk instrumentation and orchestral elements into a heavy metal framework from Emilia-Romagna.
Death metal and symphonic metal band from Wattwil in the Toggenburg valley of Switzerland, formed in 2016. They merge the brutality of death metal with orchestral symphonic arrangements, creating an ambitious, cinematic sound.
Symphonic folk-power metal band from Helsinki, Finland, active since 2009. Crimfall weave folk instrumentation and symphonic grandeur into an epic, cinematic metal framework.
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