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Athens' AmongRuins forge melodic death metal with emotional depth and technical proficiency, balancing Scandinavian-influenced harmonies with Mediterranean passion. Since 2015, they've developed a sound that stands among the best of Greece's melodeath scene.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana death metal project. Walking with corpses in the capital of the Pelican State.
Originally formed in 1997, Helsinki's Amoral evolved from progressive death metal into increasingly melodic territory across seven studio albums before their farewell show at Tavastia Club in 2017. Their 2024 reunion signals new life for a band that helped define Finland's progressive metal scene.
Amorbital delivers death metal from Humenné in eastern Slovakia since 1991. Over three decades from this Laborec River town near the Polish and Ukrainian borders, they have maintained one of Slovakia's oldest death metal legacies.
Amorgen merges melodic death metal with folk elements from Dordrecht since 2011. Named after the mythological Celtic poet-warrior, they bring Gaelic resonance to their South Holland compositions over more than a decade of activity.
From the small Komárom-Esztergom town of Ács, Amorite has unleashed death metal since 2015. Named after the ancient Mesopotamian people, they bring an unexpected pocket of brutality to rural western Hungary.
Amorph is a death metal band from Rheda-Wiedenbruck, Germany, active since 2004, working within the brutal and unrelenting framework of the genre in the East Westphalian underground. The band has maintained a steady presence in the German death metal scene over two decades of activity.
Amorphead combines death and thrash metal from Catanzaro, the capital of Calabria perched on a narrow isthmus between two seas, since 2011. Their shapeless name captures the fluid aggression of their dual-genre approach from deep southern Italy.
Amorphia merges death and black metal from Zaporizhia since 2018. Their formless name drives compositions that dissolve fixed structures through the combined acid of two extreme genres.
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