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A Killing Glance is a melodic death metal and metalcore band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2012, whose Time to Wake Up EP donates one hundred percent of profits to the Sea Shepherd ocean conservation organization. The band merges progressive and melodic death metal with accessible hooks, drawing comparisons to Dark Tranquillity and Obscura.
A la Carte is a death metal band from Lima, Ohio, serving up gore-themed brutality with a culinary twist since 2020. Track titles like "Soup Dejour," "Aborted Eggs Benedict," and "Hymen Drizzled Hotcakes" combine food service vocabulary with graphic anatomical horror. Across two releases and 15 tracks, the band has carved out a uniquely nauseating niche in Ohio's death metal scene.
A Life Less Alive is a death metal project that originated in Irvine, California before relocating to Avon Lake, Ohio. The cross-country trajectory reflects the transient nature of underground metal projects, carrying West Coast technicality to the Midwest. Limited releases suggest a project still finding its footing between coasts.
Nashville, Tennessee death metal project delivering funeral rites fueled by contempt. Music City extremity far from the country music strip.
Budapest's A Losing Season blend melodic death metal with progressive sensibilities, crafting emotionally charged compositions that balance aggression with melodic depth. Since 2008, they've been a respected presence in Hungary's melodeath scene.
A Man Named Onigumo is an extraordinarily prolific death metal and progressive metal project from Springfield, Missouri, amassing nine releases and 63 tracks since 2019. Named after the bandit from the anime Inuyasha, the project blends technical death metal with progressive structures and anime-inspired narrative ambition. Tracks like "Cerebellum Imprisoned" and "Endless Leukotomy" reveal a fascination with neurological horror and surgical precision.
Tampa/Tucson black metal and death metal project spanning Florida and Arizona. The name evokes solstice rituals in two of America's hottest cities — seeking cold in the desert and the tropics.
A Mind Confused delivers melodic death metal from Haninge in the Stockholm metropolitan area since 1997. Nearly three decades from this southern Stockholm suburb, they have maintained one of Sweden's most enduring melodic death metal legacies.
A Mind Traveller delivers technical deathcore from Veliky Novgorod since 2017. From one of Russia's oldest cities — the ancient capital of the Novgorod Republic — they bring psychological exploration to modern extreme metal.
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