Symphonic Metal
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M’era Luna Turns 26 on the Hildesheim Airfield
M’era Luna returns to the Hildesheim airfield for a twenty-sixth edition anchored by Lacrimosa, Within Temptation, and In Extremo.
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Limbonic Art Bind ‘Arcane Past: The Celestial Grimoire’
An eight-disc Kyrck artbook restores a lost 1994 demo and gathers three decades of Norwegian symphonic black metal into a…
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Septon Scores the Open Wounds of Colombian History
An independent Barranquilla band grounds symphonic metal in Romantic and Impressionist repertoire, then aims it at Colombia’s historical wounds.
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Catalyst Crime Cross Borders on ‘Acquired Immunity’
A band with no single homeland, Catalyst Crime carry a Czech resistance story and a harder sound toward listeners who…
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Enslaved Opens Unholy Halloween at Oslo Spektrum in October
The Haugesund progressive black metal veterans bring their 35-year argument to Oslo Spektrum on October 31, alongside Satyricon and Dimmu…
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Fleshgod Apocalypse Rules San Antonio’s Aztec Theatre in April
Inside San Antonio’s 1926 Aztec Theatre, Fleshgod Apocalypse stage an encounter between Italian baroque excess and American death metal certainty.
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Dimmu Borgir Settle a Debt With ‘Ulvgjeld & Blodsodel’
Eight years of silence end with a single that foregrounds ancestral Norse debt and bloodlines, ahead of a summit with…
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Worm: Exhuming the Ostentatious Gold of 1996 with ‘Necropalace’
As the Floridian shapeshifters graduate to Century Media Records, they trade the humidity of the Everglades for the freezing aristocratic…
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Genus Ordinis Dei: ‘The Land East Of Eden,’ ‘Awakening’ and the Exegesis of the Exile
Italian symphonic death metal band Genus Ordinis Dei chronicles the first murder on their new sonic opera, ‘The Land East…
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Herejía: ‘In Nomine Obscuritatis,’ a Symphonic Requiem for the Departed
The Colombian institution Herejía rises from tragedy’s shadow to unveil a monumental act of necromancy. Titled ‘In Nomine Obscuritatis,’ this…
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Nothgard: Orchestrating a Cinematic Resurrection of Melodic Sorrow with ‘Opium Dreams’
Breaking a three-year silence, Nothgard’s ‘Opium Dreams’ fuses Bavarian precision with Romantic tragedy. This pivotal 2025 return signals Dom R.…
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Herejía: A Symphonic Covenant from the Edge of the Abyss
The Colombian metal institution releases ‘In Nomine Obscuritatis,’ a posthumous fulfillment of its founder’s vision that bridges the raw aggression…
