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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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When Everything Means Nothing (Cinematic) (2021)
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Newsflash (2023)
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Atlanta death metal solo artist whose 2015 EP Remember the Sandwich brings irreverent humor to its title while delivering serious heaviness. A unique voice in Georgia's diverse metal landscape.
Indiana death metal act bringing grinding extremity from the Hoosier State, operating in the brutal underground with unflinching commitment to sonic devastation.
Virginia Beach death metal act whose mid-2000s releases A Diamond For Disease and United In Regret established them as technical death metal innovators. Their intricate, neoclassically influenced approach helped push the genre's boundaries from Hampton Roads.
ART 238 merges death metal, grindcore, and industrial metal from the Norman port of Cherbourg since 2002, creating a mechanized extremity from the Cotentin Peninsula. Over two decades of genre-fusing activity make them one of Normandy's most enduring experimental metal acts.
Art Far Away creates progressive death metal and metalcore from Gothenburg since 2014. Their distant-art name drives over a decade of ambitious compositions from the city that perfected melodic death metal.
Art of Murder delivers death metal and grindcore from Oskarshamn in Småland since 2015. From this Baltic coast town — home to one of Sweden's nuclear power plants — they channel decade of lethal extremity.
Art of Silence creates melodic death, power, and thrash metal from Milan since 2009. Their paradoxical name — art crafted from the absence of sound — contrasts with the multi-genre metallic assault they deliver from Lombardy.
Art of Sin creates blackened death metal from Roskilde as of 2026, a brand-new project from the city best known for its Viking ship museum and rock festival. Their sinister name drives extreme metal that pairs black metal's tonal hostility with death metal's technical demands.
Art of Torture is a brutal death/grind band from João Pessoa, Paraíba, playing gore-laden extreme metal in the vein of the Brazilian brutal death underground. Their 2015 album Impulse to Mutilation, recorded across studios in João Pessoa with David Nunes on vocals and André Toledo on guitars, delivers relentless blasting brutality across eleven tracks.
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