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Everyone's Talking! (2025)
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Blind (Expanded Edition) (2021)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Blood Dynasty (24-bit HD audio) (2024)
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An American symphonic black metal project that materialized in 2025, Ekvitkar arrives with grand orchestral ambitions wrapped around black metal's traditional ferocity. One of the newest entries in the symphonic extreme metal underground.
Nashville's Eldercall has been bringing symphonic weight and melodic death metal intensity to Music City since 2020. Orchestral grandeur and melodic ferocity are the defining elements of their approach.
Washington State's Element of Fate bring sweeping orchestration to traditional heavy metal, pairing symphonic grandeur with classic metal structures in a project formed in 2022 that aims squarely for the epic.
Orlando thrash metal project from the Florida underground.
Philadelphia's Empress have spent over two decades weaving symphonic grandeur into progressive power metal, stacking orchestral sweep atop technically ambitious song structures that reward patient listeners.
Austin's Empyre graft symphonic ambition onto black metal's hostility, a combination that feels at home in a city where experimental extremity is never far from center stage.
Portland's Empyrean Fire entwine symphonic lushness with atmospheric black metal's vastness, building immersive soundscapes that mirror the Pacific Northwest's fog-heavy grandeur.
California's Encrypted bring orchestral grandeur and cinematic sweep to symphonic metal, a genre-first project launched in 2024 with an ear for drama and scale. Still early in their trajectory, they're building something ambitious from the ground up.
Pittsburgh's Entheogen laces symphonic grandeur into deathcore and death metal, building an overpowering wall of sound that juxtaposes orchestral sweep with modern extremity. Formed in 2017, they're one of the more ambitious acts in the city's underground.
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