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A progressive death metal band from Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, formed in 2015 and catalogued in the Encyclopaedia Metallum. They operate within the technically demanding intersection of progressive and death metal, a style that has seen steady growth in Brazil's interior state of Minas Gerais alongside peers drawing from both the complexity of prog and the brutality of death metal.
A Secret Ending crafts symphonic and melodic death metal from an undisclosed Lithuanian location since 2020. Their narrative name suggests hidden resolutions revealed through the dramatic interplay of orchestral arrangements and extreme metal aggression.
A Shed for the Dead creates melodic death metal from Haugesund on Norway's western coast since 2022. Their morbid-architectural name evokes a mortuary structure, which their Rogaland-born melodic extremity furnishes with Swedish-influenced guitar harmonies.
Laplata, Maryland death metal project whose name frames awareness itself as a disease. Philosophical extremity from Southern Maryland.
A gothic doom/death metal band originally formed in Sapucaia do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, and now based in Porto Alegre, active since 1996 and among the longer-standing acts in southern Brazil's melancholic metal underground. Their discography includes Toward Nothingness (2009) and Passion (2015), with a sound rooted in My Dying Bride-influenced death-doom that incorporates violin and keyboards alongside vocals from a rotating cast; they appeared on a Brazilian tribute to My Dying Bride in 2020.
A Squandered Potential is a progressive and technical death metal band from Boston, Massachusetts. Their 2025 debut full-length "The Implication" delivers eight tracks of intricate, cerebral death metal from the heart of the New England scene.
A Tale of Lacriel creates symphonic and melodic death metal from Moscow since 2022. Their fantasy-narrative name drives orchestrally enriched compositions that tell elaborate tales through the combined vocabulary of symphonic and extreme metal.
A Taste of Fear wields technical thrash and death metal from Rome since 2017, their evocative name promising the dread their precision-engineered riffing delivers. The Eternal City's ancient gravitas underscores the disciplined ferocity of their approach.
Oakland death metal project. The name's body count matches the Bay Area's reputation for uncompromising extremity.
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