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Across the Shade delivers melodic death metal from Katowice since 2017. Their name suggests a journey through darkness, which their Silesian compositions navigate through Swedish-influenced guitar harmonies and aggressive dynamics.
Across the Swarm has delivered death metal from Bologna since 2014, their name evoking a surging mass of destruction. From Emilia-Romagna's cultural heart, they channel death metal's most visceral impulses through technically proficient compositions.
Acrucé Mortem is a black and death metal band from Atlanta, Georgia. The band channels the ferocity of blackened death metal from the heart of the Southern underground.
Acrybia has undergone a remarkable evolution from death metal through raw industrial black metal to funeral doom from Malbork since 2005. The Teutonic Knights' fortress city provides historically charged context for their two-decade stylistic odyssey.
Acrylate channels thrash and death metal from Crotone in Calabria since 2022. Named after a chemical compound, they bring an industrial-strength aggression from the toe of Italy's boot, where extreme metal scenes are rare but fierce.
Acronica is a death metal and hardcore band from Murcia, Spain, formed in 2022, fusing death metal's guttural extremity with hardcore's raw, confrontational energy. The band represents the newer wave of extreme metal crossover in southeastern Spain.
Act has delivered melodic death metal from İzmir since 1994, over three decades of activity making them one of Turkey's longest-running melodic death metal acts. Their concise name carries the weight of pioneering extreme metal in the Aegean coast city.
Act of Creation merges death and thrash metal from Haiger in Hesse since 2002, one of Germany's longer-running extreme metal acts from small-town central Germany. Over two decades, they have built a reputation for technically proficient brutality from the Lahn-Dill-Kreis district.
Split's Act of Denial deliver a potent fusion of death metal, groove metal, and melodic death metal from Croatia's second-largest city. Launched in 2024, they bring a multi-genre approach to extreme metal with polished production and technical proficiency.
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