Bloodbound

A Swedish heavy metal institution, Bloodbound's music has remained constant throughout their career, never straying very far from a traditional heavy metal base with power and symphonic metal accoutrements. Emerging in 2005 with Nosferatu, the band's dark image, which included corpse paint-style makeup, suggested a proclivity for black metal, but their sound hewed closer to anthemic power metal stalwarts like Helloween and Hammerfall. Bloodbound continued to explore the realms of epic fantasy metal on subsequent outings like Tabula Rasa (2009), Stormborn (2014), Rise of the Dragon Empire (2019), and Tales from the North (2024).