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A Thousand Reasons has channeled death and thrash metal from the northeastern Italian city of Pordenone since 2010. Nestled between the Alps and the Adriatic, their Friulian base provides an unexpectedly fertile setting for their aggressive dual-genre assault.
Florida death metal project. The Sunshine State breeding another act committed to maximum sonic damage.
A Throat Slit channels death and black metal from Skellefteå in northern Sweden since 2024. Their viscerally violent name drives compositions of uncompromising extremity from this Norrland coastal city.
A Total Wall merges industrial, groove, and death metal from the Milan and Varese area since 2010. Their name evokes an impenetrable sonic barrier, which their genre-blending approach constructs through mechanical rhythms and crushing low-end.
A Vintage Death crafts blackened doom and death metal from Ortona in Chieti province on the Adriatic coast of Abruzzo since 2018. Their oxymoronic name pairs aged refinement with mortality, a tension their darkly atmospheric compositions explore.
A-morality delivers metalcore and deathcore from Tobolsk in western Siberia since 2012. From this historic Siberian capital — once the seat of Russian colonial governance east of the Urals — they challenge moral frameworks through aggressive modern metal.
A death metal and grindcore act from Germany, A-Team have operated in the underground since the mid-1990s with a raw, no-frills approach to extreme music. Their output reflects the straightforward aggression characteristic of the German grind scene.
A.L.M.A. is a groove and death metal band from Chascomús, Buenos Aires Province, active in the Argentine underground metal circuit. The band is documented on Encyclopaedia Metallum and released Demo 1, marking their entry into the local extreme metal scene.
Emerging from Bad Pyrmont, Germany in 2018, A.M.E.S. fuse death metal ferocity with thrash metal precision in a potent crossover style. The band represents the continued vitality of extreme metal in the Lower Saxony region.
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