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Atlanta death metal band adding to Georgia's capital city's rapidly expanding extreme metal community with grinding intensity and technical precision.
Death/doom and melodic death metal band from Minsk, Belarus, blending the oppressive weight of doom-tinged death metal with melodic guitar work. Active in the Belarusian underground, they operate in the darker, more atmospheric end of the melodic death metal spectrum.
Artides is a death metal band from Monchengladbach, Germany, formed in 2018, whose releases include the 2017 Extreme Deformation demo, the album The Rise and Fall Of, and the track Phobos Monolith. The band delivers death metal from the lower Rhine region of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Long Island/Richmond death metal project whose Demo and single Butchering Cosmic Giants announce a cosmic horror-inflected approach to the genre. The sci-fi name signals music that operates at the intersection of technology and organic terror.
Artificial Pathogen delivers brutal death metal and deathcore from Glasgow since 2015, their lab-created-disease name reflecting the engineered brutality of their compositions. Over a decade of Scottish extremity speaks to sustained commitment.
Veria's Artificial Peace are one of Greece's oldest metal acts, with origins dating back to 1981, delivering death and thrash metal that has evolved across more than four decades. Their longevity makes them living witnesses to the entire arc of Greek extreme metal history.
Artilharia was a thrash/death metal band from Jaguariúna, São Paulo, with earlier roots in the band Hellhunter before a name change. Playing aggressive, garage-style extreme metal with Portuguese-language lyrics in a style reminiscent of 1980s Brazilian thrash, they released the demo Assassinos do Abismo before splitting up.
Bellville, Ohio death metal project with two releases since 2009. Inhuman and The All Seeing Eye deliver conspiratorial, war-themed death metal from rural north-central Ohio.
Cleveland death metal act unleashing brutal savagery from the shores of Lake Erie, continuing Northeast Ohio's seemingly endless pipeline of quality extreme metal.
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