Summoning is an Austrian atmospheric black metal band based in Vienna. Since their formation in 1993, they have released eight full-length albums and two EPs via Napalm Records. Their lyrics make extensive use of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth writings and mythology. Since 1995, their lineup has had a consistent lineup of Richard Lederer as "Protector" and Michael Gregor as "Silenius". The band never played live performances and has consistently maintained that they have no interest in ever doing so. Their latest album With Doom We Come was released on 5 January 2018.
Skyfire is a Swedish melodic death metal band from Höör, Skåne County. Formed in 1995, its initial lineup comprised Andreas Edlund (guitar), Martin Hanner, Jonas Sjögren (guitar) and Tobias Björk (drums). The band's lineup has significantly changed since its inception.
Haggard is a German symphonic metal band founded in 1989. The group combines classical music and early music with death doom metal.
Ensiferum is a Finnish folk metal band from Helsinki. The members of the band label themselves as "melodic folk metal".
Omnium Gatherum is a six-piece melodic death metal band from Finland, founded in the autumn of 1996. Although the band mainly follows the path of the melodic death metal genre, much of their work shows strong influences from progressive metal, especially their later albums. Their music is influenced by Gothenburg-style bands such as At the Gates, In Flames, Dissection, and Dark Tranquillity, but also Iron Maiden, Death, Anathema, and Megadeth among others.
Ember to Inferno is the debut studio album by American heavy metal band Trivium. It was released on October 14, 2003, through Lifeforce Records and was produced by Jason Suecof and the band themselves.
Handful of Hate is an Italian black metal band active since 1993. They released seven studio albums, Qliphothic Supremacy, Hierarchy 1999, Vicecrown, Gruesome Splendour, You Will bleed, To Perdition and Adversus.
Macbeth is an Italian gothic metal band in the international music scene. The group was founded in 1995 by drummer Fabrizio Cislaghi.
Mind Tricks is the third full-length studio album by the Italian melodic death metal band Disarmonia Mundi, released on 12 June 2006 by Scarlet Records. This album again features Björn "Speed" Strid on vocals, but this time without their bassist Mirco Andreis, who decided to leave the band to concentrate on his career as a video clip director. Mirco directed the video for the song "Celestial Furnace", but this time did not appear in the video. The album features a Pantera cover version of the song "Mouth for War". The Japanese release of the album includes a bonus track from a 2002 demo entitled, "Moon of Glass". The Korean release included a bonus track entitled "Chester". The cover art features a manipulated image from the 2005 film Sin City featuring actress Makenzie Vega as Nancy Callahan.
Flies & Lies is the second release from the Italian melodic death metal band Raintime. It released in Japan on 21 March 2007, in Sweden, United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom on 25 May, and 28 May for the rest of Europe.
The Scythe is the fourth studio album by Italian folk metal band Elvenking. The Scythe was released on September 14, 2007, through AFM Records in all European countries, and November 7 in the US by Candlelight Records.
Neptune is an Italian melodic death metal band from Verona, formed in 1999. Their influences are based upon melodic death metal acts such as Hatesphere, In Flames, Soilwork, Dark Tranquillity, Disarmonia Mundi, At the Gates and The Haunted.
Sadist is an Italian death metal band formed in Genoa, Italy, in January 1991. It debuted with Black Screams in 1991, then released three albums. The band went on hiatus after releasing the album Lego in 2000. They reunited in 2005 and released their self-titled album in 2007. Sadist has released three more albums since then. In total, the band has released nine albums and one EP. They are currently signed to Scarlet Records. Guitarist and keyboardist, Tommy Talamanca, has been a constant member throughout the band's existence, as the main composer and co-producer of their musical output. Trevor Nadir has been the main singer of the band since 1996.
Winter's Verge is a power metal band formed in Nicosia, Cyprus in 2004. Winter's Verge is one of the best-known bands from Cyprus and one of the few artists signed to an international record label. They have participated in overseas tours, most notably with Finnish band Stratovarius. Their latest album entitled The Ballad of James Tig was released in September 2020 by Pride & Joy Music.
Ekho is an Israeli death/power metal band from Ganey Tikva. Formed in 2008, the Group consists of Bar Sanitovsky, Yarden Mor-Avi (guitar), Boris Skolyar (bass), Tomshi Shein (keyboards) and Erez Nadler (drums). The band is considered to be extreme heavy metal. Since the band's formation, they have released one studio album, and two demos.
Cipher System is a Swedish melodic death metal band from Tjörn. The band formed under the name Eternal Grief in 1995. They changed their name in 2001 to Cipher System.
Vulcano is a Brazilian extreme metal band from Santos, São Paulo. Founded in 1981, it is one of the first Brazilian heavy metal bands of note; with reference to their influence on the Latin American black metal scene, Terrorizer reported that "many believe that Vulcano not only kick-started musical blasphemy in Brazil, but throughout the whole of Latin America". Vulcano is noted as an influence on Sepultura.
Wuthering Heights is a Danish-Swedish heavy metal band with a somewhat eclectic musical style which falls in somewhere between progressive metal, "folk music-into-heavy metal" and power metal, along with "a mixture of neoclassical metal, melodic speed metal and various progressive elements."
Gianluca Firmo is an Italian singer, songwriter and keyboard player. Firmo was also the main guitar player and songwriter on Room Experience, an international melodic rock project featuring David Readman.
Psychromatic is the third studio album by Italian melodic death metal band Raintime. It was released on 27 April 2010.
