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Spitting Fire Live Vol. 2 (2013)
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Sioux Falls death metal project from the South Dakota underground.
Angerpath creates death metal from Bielsko-Biała in southern Poland since 2018. From this Silesian-Masurian border city at the foot of the Beskids, they carve a path of fury through the mountain-shadowed landscape.
Debrecen's Angerseed has cultivated death metal since 2010, growing from the cultural soil of Hungary's second city on the Great Plain. Their name suggests the germination of fury, which their music delivers through relentless extremity.
Leganés-based AngerSoul has been channeling death-thrash fury from Madrid's southern suburbs since 2012, delivering riff-driven aggression rooted in the classic crossover of both genres. Their sound captures the volatile energy of Spain's thriving extreme metal underground.
Angerstorm are a death metal quintet from Quillota, Chile, who gained regional recognition when they were invited to open for Mexican-American extreme metal band Brujería at a show in Valparaíso in April 2022. The band, whose members include drummer Darko Fernández, have continued to anchor the local underground scene, most recently performing at the Kill-ota Metal Fest III in San Pedro in February 2026.
Denver, Colorado / Nashville death metal project from the Tennessee underground.
Angis has transitioned from doom and death metal into pagan black metal from Kaunas since 2017. Their Lithuanian name meaning 'snake' threads through compositions that have shed their skin to reveal new stylistic forms.
Angist has delivered death metal from Reykjavík since 2010, bringing a more directly brutal approach to Iceland's extreme metal community. Their Icelandic name means 'anguish,' and their sound delivers on that promise with unrelenting ferocity.
Angles Morts creates death metal from Rotterdam as of 2025. Their French name meaning 'blind spots' or 'dead angles' drives music that attacks from unexpected directions in the Dutch port city's underground.
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