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Featured Album
Eschatology of War (2021)
Featured Power Metal Album
Magellan's Expedition (2022)
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Featured Heavy Metal Album
Among the Shadows (2024)
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Heavy metal and hard rock band from Bijacovce, Slovakia, formed in 2015, named after the iron sulfide mineral known as fool's gold. Over a decade of gleaming metal from the Spiš region.
Thrash metal band from Bucharest, Romania, formed in 2021, detonating explosive thrash metal from the Romanian capital. They bring high-energy thrash to Bucharest's growing metal community.
Progressive metal band from Leksand, Sweden, formed in 2022, delivering incendiary progressive metal from the Dalarna region. They bring fiery ambition to the Swedish progressive metal scene.
České Budějovice's Pyromann fuses groove metal's rhythmic punch with metalcore's dynamic shifts, active since 2021. Their South Bohemian base provides a platform in one of the Czech Republic's more active regional metal scenes.
Technical melodic death metal band from Rzeszow, Poland, active since 2011, ironically named after the fear of fire while delivering incendiary technical death metal. Over a decade of activity marks their technical dedication.
Heavy metal band from Ljubljana, Slovenia, formed in 2017, named after the silicate mineral group. They bring mineral-hard heavy metal from the Slovenian capital.
A 2025 German black metal project, Pyrphoros — Greek for 'fire-bearer' — channels Promethean themes through tremolo-driven compositions. Their classical name suggests an intellectual underpinning to their raw sonic aggression.
Black metal band from Orkelljunga, Sweden, formed in 2017, named after the mythological daughter of Pandora who survived the great flood. Over eight years of mythologically charged black metal from Skane.
Black and death metal band from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2021, delivering explosive blackened death metal from the Russian capital. They bring dark intensity to Moscow's extreme metal community.
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