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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Bethlehem deathcore project from the Pennsylvania underground.
April Weeps creates melodic groove and gothic metal from Dunajská Streda in the Žitný ostrov since 2013. From this Hungarian-majority town in Slovakia's Danube island region, they bring over a decade of tearful melodic compositions.
Arae delivers death metal, groove metal, and melodic death metal from the Loiret department since 2015, creating a multi-faceted extreme sound from the Centre-Val de Loire region. Their Latin name, meaning "altars," adds a sacrificial dimension to their heavy compositions.
Arandem is a melodic groove, alternative, and heavy metal band from Ditzingen near Stuttgart, Germany, formed in 2026, representing one of the absolute newest acts in the German metal landscape. The band blends groove metal's rhythmic punch with melodic and alternative metal elements.
Arbatax explores progressive and groove metal from Kyiv since 2017. Named after a Sardinian village, their Mediterranean reference adds unexpected Italian island warmth to technically ambitious Ukrainian metal.
Phoenix groove metal project from the Arizona underground.
Based in Mohelnice, Archeonic were formed by two members of the dissolved technical death metal band Scenery, and debuted with the EP The 16th Dimension before releasing their first full-length Digital Pain in January 2022. The album's nine tracks blend groove, death, and thrash metal influences across roughly 40 minutes, channeling the band's roots in technical extreme metal.
Arcknoid merges groove and heavy metal from the French underground since 2018, their alien-arcade-inspired name adding a retro-futuristic edge. Their rhythmically driven sound bridges the gap between classic heaviness and modern groove.
Las Vegas thrash metal project whose 2024 single arrives from a city practically adjacent to America's most famous classified military installation. The conspiracy-theory name writes itself when you're playing thrash in the Nevada desert.
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