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Audiorrea has been grinding out death metal and grindcore from the Catalan city of Reus since 2010. Their name, a play on "diarrhea," signals a band that values sonic excess and visceral impact above all else.
California death metal project with two releases since 2023. Crime Rituals and Tragedies Of Western Existence channel societal critique through brutal extremity from the Golden State.
Auerkallio blends progressive death metal with progressive rock from Tampere since 2011. Their Finnish-language name adds local identity to compositions that bridge the technical demands of death metal with the expansive possibilities of progressive rock.
Augmented Fury merges black and death metal from Tromsø, Norway's Arctic city above the 69th parallel, since 2023. Their enhanced-rage name drives extreme metal forged in the polar darkness and midnight sun of the far north.
Augspiem are a death metal/grindcore band from Salzburg whose album My Life is a Big Puke signals their commitment to unvarnished extremity and the sardonic, confrontational humour of the grind tradition. Their music is fast, aggressive, and deliberately unglamorous, situting itself within the European grindcore underground that runs from Terrorizer worship to power-violence aesthetics.
August Moon delivers melodic death metal from Helsinki starting in 2026, representing the cutting edge of Finland's newest melodeath generation. Their evocative name conjures the haunting beauty of a late-summer night sky, a fitting image for melodic metal born in the land of the midnight sun.
Hilo, Hawaii death metal and metalcore project — possibly the most remote metal act in the United States. Six releases since 2014 including Angel In Plainclothes demonstrate that extreme music can emerge from tropical paradise just as readily as from industrial wastelands.
Tahlequah, Oklahoma death metal band from the capital of the Cherokee Nation, bringing extreme metal to a town steeped in Indigenous history and culture.
Aurealhearth is a nascent Spanish project launched in 2025 that fuses black metal, death metal, and doom metal into a heavy triptych of extreme sounds. The project's triple-genre approach signals ambitious compositional aims from its earliest days.
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