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Pennsylvania death metal project named after the eye condition causing blurred vision. Medical horror from the Keystone State.
Amfortas crafts death-doom metal from the southeastern port city of Hamina since 2017, named after the wounded Grail King of Arthurian legend. Their literary inspiration feeds compositions that carry the weight of ancient myth and inevitable suffering.
Amid the Barren and Lost fuses death metal, deathcore, and thrash metal from London since 2018, their desolate name evoking the wasteland their compositions inhabit. Their triple-genre approach creates an overwhelming assault.
Amily crafts doom and death metal from Rivne since 2012. Over a decade from this northwestern Ukrainian city on the Ustya River, they have built a body of dual-genre heaviness.
Herrin, Illinois extreme metal entity maintaining a relentless output since 2015. Eleven releases spanning black metal, death metal, and everything between demonstrate an insatiable creative appetite, with their catalog ranging from raw early EPs to more refined recent singles like An Unwanted Possessor.
Amissa delivers melodic death metal from Stockholm since 2008. Their Latin name meaning 'lost things' drives nearly two decades of compositions that search for meaning through melodic extremity from the Swedish capital.
Ammit is a death metal and deathcore band from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, named after the Egyptian mythological demoness — part lion, hippopotamus, and crocodile — who devoured the hearts of the unworthy dead. The band incorporates lyrical themes drawn from hermetic philosophy and Egyptian mythology, and their sound blends the technicality of modern death metal with the heaviness of deathcore. They gained early visibility opening for Ukrainian metal act Jinjer on the band's Brazilian dates.
Ammonium creates death metal from Izhevsk, the capital of Udmurtia, since 2012. Named after the chemical ion, they bring molecular-level intensity to over a decade of death metal from this Ural Republic arms-manufacturing center.
Amnesie is a death metal and grindcore band from Rostock, Germany, active since 2004, delivering the brutal, high-speed assault characteristic of the grindcore-death metal crossover. Based in the port city on the Baltic coast, the band has maintained a two-decade presence in northeastern Germany's extreme metal underground.
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