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Anesthesia is a death metal band from Caxias do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, a city with a strong extreme metal tradition in southern Brazil. Formed in 2008, the band plays direct, aggressive death metal rooted in the brutal underground scene of the Rio Grande do Sul state.
Phoenix death metal project from the Arizona underground.
A thrash/death metal band from Kortrijk formed in 1988 whose career ran until 2000, placing them among the first generation of Belgian death and thrash hybrids. They contributed tracks to the Detonation compilation series in the early 1990s and featured various vocalists and guitarists including Frank "Liberty" Libeert before disbanding.
Anesys fuses death metal, melodic death metal, and metalcore from the Atlantic port of La Rochelle since 2016. Their anesthesia-inspired name contrasts with music designed to jolt listeners into full sensory awareness.
Anethera is an industrial death and doom metal solo project from Haderslev, Denmark, created by Dan Monberg Skott, whose 2021 release Fiat Justicia Ruat Caelum contains three tracks originally recorded in 2012 and rediscovered in an old Dropbox archive. The project focuses on keeping music simple and atmospheric within the industrial death metal framework.
Atlantic Highlands death metal project from the New Jersey underground.
Oakland death metal project from the California underground.
Angel 7 merges melodic death, power, and thrash metal from Kyiv since 2001. Over a quarter century of multi-genre compositions from the Ukrainian capital, they have sustained an ambitious triple-threat approach.
Angel Distress is an atmospheric doom/death metal band from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, crafting music described as dark, heavy, and majestic with an epic and melancholic character. The band released their debut album "Ligna In Inani" in 2025 through Vision of God Records, having built anticipation with the earlier single "Fallen in Pain".
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