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Actin' Up (2023)
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Fertile Green (2012)
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I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Future Sequence: Live at the Fidelitorium (2015)
05/31 @ Bourbon Theatre, Lincoln
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Algetic produces technical brutal death metal from Karlsruhe in Baden-Württemberg since 2013. Named after a term relating to pain sensitivity, their surgical-precision brutality emerges from one of Germany's leading technology cities.
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania melodic black/death metal project with a staggering nine-volume discography built since 2021. A prolific solo effort channeling melodic Scandinavian death metal through a relentless creative output.
Sacramento death/thrash project. The name referencing pleasure from pain suits the ritual extremity from California's capital.
Algophobia delivers technical death metal from Ascoli Piceno in the southern Marche since 2019. Named after the fear of pain, their music paradoxically inflicts the very sensation its name dreads through surgically precise brutality.
Algorithmics delivers progressive, melodic death, and thrash metal from Tomsk as of 2025. Their computational name drives technically precise compositions from this western Siberian science city, home to one of Russia's premier universities.
Baltimore death metal project named after the fictional author of the Necronomicon. Lovecraftian horror from Charm City.
San Diego death metal and grindcore project. Southern California extremity with a fantasy-tinged name.
Alias Noone combines death metal, melodic death metal, and progressive metal from Helsinki since 2021, exploring the genre's most technically demanding intersections. Their anonymous-sounding name contrasts with the distinctive musical identity they've carved out.
Alibi for a Murder is a death metal band from Warendorf, Germany, formed in 2007, whose sound incorporates black and thrash metal influences into a fast, brutal core. Their discography includes the releases Alienated Creator, Chameleon Plague, A Moment of Annihilation, and Pieces, with a lineup of Damian Wolters on vocals, Huseyin Yildiz on guitar, Nikos Kampmeier on bass, and Sebastian Metken on drums.
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