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Long Island thrash metal act whose 2024 EP Disgraced Emanations From A Tranquil State delivers verbose, ambitious thrash from the New York suburbs. The lengthy title promises complexity, and the music follows through.
Apriori merges death and thrash metal from Istanbul since 2020. Their philosophical name — knowledge independent of experience — drives compositions of pre-experiential aggression from Turkey's largest city.
Aprosopy is a death metal band from Dresden, Germany, formed in 2013, whose name references the medical condition of facial absence, fitting the genre's fascination with bodily horror and medical pathology. The band contributes to Dresden's active extreme metal underground.
Grants Pass, Oregon death metal project whose 2019 self-titled EP delivers extremity from southern Oregon's Rogue Valley. Named after wingless insects, their music stays grounded in earthbound heaviness.
Lockport death metal project from the Illinois underground.
Apóstasis is a melodic black/death metal band from Brasília, Brazil, whose 2018 self-titled album draws on Nietzschean philosophy and misanthropy as lyrical touchstones. Their sound fuses the melodic sweep of Scandinavian black metal with death metal aggression, reflecting the increasingly ambitious underground scene in Brazil's federal capital. The band remains independent and active.
Aquilon merges death metal, industrial metal, and melodic death metal from the Drôme town of Montélimar since 2016. Named after the Roman god of the north wind, their sound carries a corresponding chill despite their Provençal origins.
Milwaukee death metal project. The three-letter name — evoking altars, constellations, and simplicity — frames their contribution to Wisconsin's heavy underground with elegant brevity.
Newark, Ohio death metal project with five releases since 2012. Albums like Human Consciousness Experiment and Acts to Continue in Breathless Sleep explore the boundaries of consciousness through punishing extremity from small-town central Ohio.
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