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Axxen Conners creates melodic groove and death metal from Antalya on Turkey's southern Mediterranean coast since 2016. From this tourist paradise surrounded by ancient ruins, they deliver a decade of rhythmically charged melodic extremity.
Ayahuasca is a progressive death metal and deathcore band from Cologne, Germany, formed in 2013, named after the psychoactive Amazonian brew used in shamanic rituals. The band channels altered states and expansive consciousness into their blend of technical progressive death metal and deathcore aggression.
Ayat Akrass is a death metal/hardcore band from Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. The band blends the aggression of hardcore punk with death metal heaviness, with lyrical themes centering on equality, capitalism, and political resistance. Their 2003 demo "Quando o Preço da Glória é Pago com Sangue" (When the Price of Glory is Paid with Blood) was released jointly through the Shades Before Dawn and L-Dopa labels.
Aydra has delivered technical death metal from Ancona on the Adriatic coast of the Marche since 1996, making them one of Italy's longest-running technical death metal acts. Three decades of activity from this port city have produced a substantial body of technically demanding work.
Savage Death Metal out of Texas.
Ayn creates melodic death metal from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on Sakhalin Island since 2017. Named after the Hebrew letter, they bring melodic sophistication to extreme metal from Russia's most easterly island outpost.
Aynsophar has practiced death metal from Debrecen since 2010, taking their name from the Kabbalistic concept of the infinite divine light. This mystical underpinning informs a death metal approach that reaches beyond pure brutality into more contemplative extremity.
Aythya blends melodic death and black metal from Helsinki since 2017, named after the genus of diving ducks. Their ornithological name brings an unexpected natural-world reference to the dual-genre extreme metal they practice.
Aythya Fuligula delivers melodic death and thrash metal from Moscow since 2020. Named after the tufted duck species with perfect Latin binomial precision, they bring ornithological exactitude to their dual-genre compositions.
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