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Blackened/technical death metal band from St. Gallen, Switzerland, whose 2023 album "Miscreation" was mixed and mastered by Dan Swanö at Unisound Studio in Sweden. The nine-track record—featuring vocalist David Oberthaler and guitarists Ramon Locher and Claudio Dotta—explores nihilistic themes of extinction and the void, and was released on limited purple marble vinyl alongside standard formats.
All of My Shadows creates melodic death metal from Belluno in the Dolomite foothills as of 2025, their introspective name suggesting a confrontation with one's darker selves. This Alpine Veneto setting, surrounded by some of Europe's most dramatic peaks, informs their atmospheric melodicism.
Athens' All Sins Undone emerged in 2023 with a punishing blend of death and thrash metal, delivering relentless aggression with technical precision. Their name suggests a thematic fascination with moral reckoning and absolution through violence.
All That Heaven Allows fuses black and death metal from the Scottish border town of Dumfries since 2023, their ironic Hollywood-melodrama name contrasting with the extremity of their sound. Their Dumfries and Galloway origins feed a uniquely Scottish perspective.
All the Fury channels melodic death metal from Košice in eastern Slovakia since 2018. From Slovakia's second-largest city, they deliver compositions that harness all available fury through melodic precision.
All They Decide delivers death metal and deathcore from Nancy since 2009, representing over a decade of extreme music from the Lorraine capital. Their authoritarian name suits the commanding intensity of their sonic assault.
Troy, Illinois death metal project. The name's apocalyptic certainty promises universal collapse from the Metro East.
All Will Know delivers melodic death metal and metalcore from Darmstadt in Hesse since 2012. Over a decade in this scientific and technological hub south of Frankfurt, they have built a sound that balances Scandinavian melodeath with modern metalcore dynamics.
Alldead combines black and death metal from Taranto, the Ionian Sea port city, since 2022. Their blunt name captures the finality and devastation at the core of their Pugliese extreme metal.
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