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A Novelist is a progressive death metal act from Lafayette, Louisiana. The band's output includes two full-lengths — 2015's "Portraits" and an instrumental version of "Folie" released in 2019 — showcasing intricate arrangements and technical proficiency within a death metal framework.
A Place for Murder has practiced death metal from Bologna — Italy's culinary and cultural crossroads — since 2011. Their noir-tinged name contrasts with Bologna's warmth, bringing a cold, methodical violence to the Emilia-Romagna underground.
A Plague in Faith is a technical death metal band from Kansas City, Missouri. Their 2015 full-length "Resonating Blasphemy" delivers nine tracks of punishing, technically demanding death metal rooted in the Midwest underground.
A deathcore band from Herford in North Rhine-Westphalia, A Plumbers Nightmare were founded in 2007 and built a festival presence over their active years. Their releases include the Demo(n) tape (2008), the Bloodwinger EP (2010), and the Medea EP (2012), delivering the genre's signature low-tuned brutality with a six-piece lineup.
A Berlin-based power/death metal band active from 2010 to 2015, A Pocket Sized Sun took their name from a Tiamat song and applied it to music that deliberately avoided conventional song structures in favor of melodic development and variation. Their sole release, the Fallout EP, mixed melodic death metal riffing with power metal sensibility and was mixed and mastered at Winter Solitude Studios.
A deathcore outfit from Mühldorf am Inn, Germany, formed in 2023, A Rising Chapter blend brutal heaviness with catchy, partly harmonious melodies to carve out a distinct identity within the genre. Their releases include the Forlorn Hope EP and the full-length I N A N I M A T E, showcasing a band intent on standing out through dynamic songwriting rather than pure aggression.
A progressive death metal band from Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, formed in 2015 and catalogued in the Encyclopaedia Metallum. They operate within the technically demanding intersection of progressive and death metal, a style that has seen steady growth in Brazil's interior state of Minas Gerais alongside peers drawing from both the complexity of prog and the brutality of death metal.
A Secret Ending crafts symphonic and melodic death metal from an undisclosed Lithuanian location since 2020. Their narrative name suggests hidden resolutions revealed through the dramatic interplay of orchestral arrangements and extreme metal aggression.
A Shed for the Dead creates melodic death metal from Haugesund on Norway's western coast since 2022. Their morbid-architectural name evokes a mortuary structure, which their Rogaland-born melodic extremity furnishes with Swedish-influenced guitar harmonies.
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