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Abduction is a heavy and thrash metal band from Danbury, Connecticut. Since 2016, the band has released a full-length, two EPs, and a demo, blending high-energy thrash riffs with hard rock swagger.
Abductions is a black/death metal band from Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul — a city with one of Brazil's longest-established extreme metal traditions, home to legends like Krisiun. The band blends the fast-picked tremolo riffing and blast-beat intensity of death metal with black metal's raw atmosphere and misanthropic aesthetics. They are signed to Acid Vicious and remain active within Porto Alegre's thriving underground scene.
Abel Is Dying has evolved from melodic death metal and metalcore origins in 2005 through a long run in Milan's heavy music scene. Their biblical name evokes primal violence, which their Lombard-bred sound has explored through multiple stylistic phases.
Aberrant Construct is a brutal death metal and deathcore band from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Their 2018 full-length "Silience" delivers seven tracks of pummeling, low-tuned extremity where brutal death metal meets deathcore ferocity.
Death metal band from Poços de Caldas, Minas Gerais, formed in 2018 and featuring a lineup of Yuri Almeida on drums, Júlio Cesar on guitar, David Andrade on vocals, and Nathan Franco on bass. They released a self-titled debut in 2016 and followed it with the full-length Thanatos in 2023, the latter produced with a music video for the track "Eviscerator." Their sound draws on traditional brutal death metal with lyrical themes spanning philosophy, history, and politics.
Black/death metal band from Ourinhos, São Paulo, formed in 2021 and representing the deep interior of the state's underground extreme metal scene. Little documented material exists beyond their Metal Archives registration, placing them squarely in the raw South American black and death metal tradition.
Aberrazione channels thrash and death metal from San Donà di Piave in the Venice metropolitan area since 2021. Their Italian name meaning 'aberration' captures the deviant energy they bring from the Veneto flatlands.
Abesforia creates atmospheric doom and death metal from Ryazan southeast of Moscow since 2013. From this ancient Russian city on the Oka River, they craft compositions of vast, melancholic weight.
Abettor channels death and doom metal from Novocheboksarsk in the Chuvash Republic since 2016. Their accomplice-indicating name drives compositions of complicit heaviness from this Volga River industrial city.
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