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Symphia craft symphonic metal from San Cristobal de La Laguna in Tenerife, layering orchestral grandeur over heavy compositions from the Canary Islands. Formed in 2020, they bring Atlantic island symphonic metal to the Spanish scene.
Symphonia brings atmospheric gothic metal with classical influences from the Champagne capital of Reims, active since 2018. Their music blends orchestral elegance with dark, brooding metal in a style that honors the gothic tradition's romantic sensibility.
Symphonity are a power metal ensemble from Brno known for their "up tempo hymns" and classical melodies, featuring vocalists who have worked with Luca Turilli and Signum Regis. Their ambitious conceptual works, including the two-part "Marco Polo" saga, demonstrate a cinematic approach to symphonic power metal that has earned them international recognition.
Symphony of Shadows craft symphonic metal from Vantaa in the Helsinki metropolitan area, layering orchestral grandeur over heavy compositions. Active since 2017, they bring shadow-orchestrated intensity to the Finnish symphonic scene.
Symphony of Sorrow deliver groove metal from an undisclosed Swedish location since 2012. Over a decade of channeling their orchestral-grief name into rhythmically driven compositions that blend accessible alternative rock with metal weight.
Stockholm's Symphony of Tragedy deliver power metal from the Swedish capital since 2018. Their name of orchestrated catastrophe channels the grandeur of dramatic downfall into anthemic compositions of capital-city ambition.
Symposion deal in death metal from Copenhagen, their name (from the Greek symposium, a drinking party with philosophical discussion) adding intellectual weight to their extreme output. Active since 2013, they bring philosophical brutality to the Danish death metal landscape.
Symptoms of Sickness, originating in Sweden before relocating to Portland, have been crafting ambient black/doom metal since 2013. Over a decade of channeling the clinical manifestation of disease into compositions of atmospheric, glacially paced darkness across two continents.
Sundsvall's Syn:drom deliver death metal from the Norrland coastal city since 2010. Their colon-punctuated syndrome name channels the clinical classification of pathological patterns into over a decade of compositions from northern Sweden.
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