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Spitting Fire Live Vol. 2 (2013)
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Argoroth merges black metal, death metal, grindcore, and noise from an undisclosed Norwegian location since 1999. Over a quarter century, this chaotic multi-genre project has produced some of the most abrasive, boundary-defying sounds in the Norwegian underground.
Argos channels melodic death and black metal from Orsha in the Vitebsk Region of eastern Belarus since 2009. Named after the mythological city, hundred-eyed giant, or Odysseus's faithful dog, they bring extreme melodicism from a town near the Russian border.
Arhideus delivers technical death metal from Moscow since 2023. Named after the half-brother of Alexander the Great who briefly served as king of Macedon, they bring ancient-world gravitas to modern technical precision.
Arhythmy delivers death 'n' roll from Wetzlar in Hesse since 2013. Named after the medical condition of irregular heartbeat, they channel that cardiac unpredictability into the groove-heavy fusion of death metal and rock 'n' roll.
Aria of Sorrow crafts melodic death metal from the municipality of Sipoo near Helsinki since 2023, their name borrowing from the Castlevania video game franchise. Their gothic gaming inspiration feeds compositions that blend melody with darkness.
Arithmus delivers melodic death, groove metal, and metalcore from Jönköping since 2012. Named after the Greek word for 'number,' they bring mathematical precision to over a decade of multi-genre compositions from this southern Swedish lakeside city.
Ann Arbor death metal project bringing extremity to Michigan's college-town scene, proving that brutal music and academic communities can coexist with ferocious results.
Ark of Passage channels melodic death and thrash metal from Moscow since 2010. Their vessel-of-transit name drives fifteen years of compositions that transport listeners through melodic extremity.
Riverside, California death metal outfit with three releases since 2010. Their catalog-numbered releases on DIFF suggest a methodical, label-driven approach to technical death metal from the Inland Empire.
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