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Black and death metal band from Salvador, Bahia, active from 2014, fusing black metal and death metal with crust, punk, and grindcore influences. Their 2018 album "O Grotesco e o Desespero," released on Cospe Fogo Gravações and recorded at Estúdio Ruído Rosa in Salvador, explores themes of despair, resistance, and societal decay across ten tracks. The band also released the split "Aphorism / Rabujos" and the EP "I" (2014), making them one of the more prolific underground extreme acts to emerge from northeastern Brazil.
Aphotic delivers brutal death metal from the Fife, Glasgow, and Perth corridor since 2022, their lightless name evoking the crushing darkness of their sound. Their multi-city Scottish origins reflect a collaborative approach to brutality.
Heavy Melodic Black / Death Metal from Bryan/Caldwell.
Aphranya channels atmospheric death metal from Kočovce in the Trenčín district since 2009. Nearly two decades from this small western Slovak village, they have crafted atmospheric compositions of death metal sophistication.
Aphrenety has evolved from thrash, death, and groove metal into a black and death metal combination from Wolfsburg, the Volkswagen city, since 2021. Their name, suggesting a frenetic loss of reason, drives their Lower Saxony-bred extremity through multiple stylistic phases.
Aphrodia Okkulta is a German extreme death metal art project formed in 2018, distinguished by its rotating cast of session musicians with no fixed lineup across releases. The project combines symphonic and orchestral elements with high-tempo, aggressive death metal and German-language growl vocals across releases like Running in Circles, The Relentless Power of a Crushing Tide, and Ephemeral, explicitly positioning itself as confrontational art not intended for casual listening.
Aphyxion is a melodic death metal and metalcore band from Ribe, Denmark, formed in 2016, whose albums Aftermath, Void, and the 2023 release Ad Astra have established them as a force in the Danish underground metal scene. The band plays metal for the love of playing metal, collaborating with acts like Siamese and Chaosbay while working with producer Jonas Haagensen and mixer Jacob Hansen.
Apisonadora lives up to their steamroller name, flattening everything in their path with a death-grind assault launched from Madrid in 2015. Their grinding approach to extreme metal embodies the crushing, no-frills aesthetic the genre demands.
Springfield, Missouri death metal project with eight releases since 2024 — a breathtaking pace that matches their name's reference to the cessation of breathing. Titles spanning Spanish (Brétema) and science fiction (Childhood's End) reveal eclectic literary tastes beneath the extremity.
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