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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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Obnoxious Demos (2014)
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Mentally Murdered (2019)
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Portuguese symphonic heavy/gothic metal band from Lisbon with a discography spanning On Light And Wrath, Mother Hope, Cerberus, and the 2024 orchestral reimagining Symphony of Cerberus on Inverse Records. Their female-fronted sound blends progressive metal complexity with gothic atmosphere across twelve orchestral arrangements.
Symphonic metal act from Gemund in the Eifel region of western Germany, crafting orchestrally enriched metal since 2008. Their name captures the grand, climactic quality of their symphonic compositions.
Black, gothic, and symphonic metal band from Thessaloniki, Greece launched in 2024. They fuse multiple dark metal styles from northern Greece.
Power metal and symphonic metal band from Joensuu in eastern Finland, formed in 2022. They bring epic, soaring metal from the heart of Finnish Karelia.
Symphonic power metal band from Turgi, Switzerland, crafting epic, orchestrally enriched compositions since 2011. Their Tolkien-inspired name reflects a taste for fantasy themes delivered through sweeping symphonic arrangements and powerful vocals.
Firmly rooted in symphonic metal, this Greek actfrom Athens delivers lush keyboard atmospherics layered over crushing rhythmic power without compromise. They've been at it since 2014, and their sound resists easy categorization, blending influences into something distinctly their own.
Kraków, Poland — death metal, industrial metal, and symphonic metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2015, they deal in cinematic sweep and operatic vocals over thundering metal arrangements. Their catalog reveals a band unafraid to explore the darker corners of heavy music.
Symphonic black metal act from Barcelona, Spain led by multi-instrumentalist Efrem Quilis and vocalist Gessami Martinez. Their discography spans from a 2013 demo through 2019's Civilizations to the 2024 full-length Poimandres, exploring hermeticism and esoteric philosophy.
Black metal and symphonic metal project from Finland, active since 2020. They merge icy black metal aggression with orchestral symphonic grandeur.
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