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Ahmasiah has been delivering death metal from the Landes department town of Mont-de-Marsan since 1997, making them one of southwestern France's longest-running extreme metal acts. Nearly three decades of activity speak to remarkable dedication from a small Gascon community.
Ahriman is a death/black metal band from Toledo, Ohio named after the Zoroastrian spirit of destruction. Active since 1997, the band has released four recordings over twenty-five years, with Hungarian-titled tracks like "Bőrkoporsó" suggesting Eastern European cultural connections.
Ahriman was a death metal band from Recife, Pernambuco, active from 1997 until their split-up and named after the Zoroastrian deity of darkness. Operating out of the northeast Brazilian underground, they were part of Recife's burgeoning extreme metal scene of the late 1990s.
Kansas City, Missouri death metal project. Phonetic aggression from the heart of the Midwest.
Ahura delivers death metal from the Nantes and Les Sables-d'Olonne corridor since 2020, their Zoroastrian-inspired name adding a spiritual dimension to their extreme metal. Their dual-city origins reflect collaboration within the Pays de la Loire region.
Aid Idealismus delivers symphonic blackened deathcore from Rostov-on-Don as of 2025. Their German-inflected philosophical name — evoking idealism — brings unexpected intellectual ambition to the physicality of symphonic deathcore.
Ailurophobia delivers death metal from Geneva since 2024, named after the irrational fear of cats. From the city of the United Nations and CERN, they bring a particularly intense brand of death metal that belies their whimsical feline-phobia name.
Aim explores melodic and progressive death metal from Kaliningrad since 2010. Over fifteen years from Russia's Baltic exclave, they have crafted compositions that target the intersection of melody and technical ambition.
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