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Achernar creates melodic death metal from Sassari in northern Sardinia since 2009, named after one of the brightest stars in the night sky. Their stellar nomenclature guides a sound that pairs melodic precision with the raw energy of the Sardinian underground.
Death metal project that migrated from Tampa to Pittsburgh to Columbus — three cities, each with deep metal roots. Named after the river of woe in Greek mythology.
Symphonic black/death metal band from Lucerne, Switzerland, whose 2019 concept album "Gate Into the Abyss" is built around Greek mythology—specifically the Promethean narrative of divine rebellion, human liberation, and descent into the underworld. The nine-track record follows a protagonist journeying through Hades and Tartarus guided by the prophet Teiresias, and was self-released for 20 CHF.
Las Vegas death metal project. The name — evoking absence of color — strips away the neon glitz to reveal desert darkness beneath.
Achsar has evolved from doom metal into melodic folk, death, and black metal from Levice in the Hron Valley since 2014. Their stylistic expansion over a decade mirrors a journey from monolithic heaviness to folk-enriched melodic extremity.
Formed in Ostend in spring 1999 by the Winkelmans brothers alongside Rik Aspeslagh and Kris Bollenberg, this melodic death metal band built a following in the Belgian underground before signing to Mausoleum Records. They were active for over a decade before disbanding in September 2012.
Acid Vat delivers death metal from Stockport since 2024, their industrial-chemical name evoking the dissolving brutality of their sound. Their Greater Manchester origins connect them to one of England's most productive metal regions.
Acid Witch is a psychedelic doom and death metal band from Detroit, Michigan. One of the more distinctive acts in American doom, the band merges Halloween-obsessed horror themes with crushing doom-death riffs and lysergic psychedelia across four releases.
Acidfuneral is a death/doom metal and ambient project from Urbana, Illinois. The project bridges crushing funeral doom with atmospheric ambient textures, creating a sound as desolate as the central Illinois flatlands.
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