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Amenaza is a heavy metal band from José C. Paz, Buenos Aires, Argentina, who released their self-titled debut in June 2020. The tape-released album spans 17 tracks and showcases the band's raw approach to traditional heavy metal within the greater Buenos Aires underground scene.
Amma plays heavy metal and hard rock from Wallonia since 2012, their name — shared with the Icelandic word for grandmother — carrying an unexpected warmth for a metal act. Their Francophone Belgian identity shapes a classic-leaning approach to heavy music.
Ammotrack plays heavy metal and hard rock from Skövde since 2016. Their ammunition-railroad name drives explosive compositions from this Västergötland military-garrison city.
Amnesy brings heavy metal from the Norman capital of Rouen since 2023, their amnesia-inflected name suggesting music that makes listeners forget everything else. Their traditional metal approach adds to Normandy's growing roster of classic metal acts.
Amnezia is a Budapest heavy metal outfit formed in 2015, carrying forward the tradition of straight-ahead, riff-centric metal in Hungary's capital. Their approach favors direct, hard-hitting songwriting over excessive ornamentation.
One of Finland's most iconic metal bands, Amorphis has evolved from death-doom pioneers on "The Karelian Isthmus" to progressive metal masters drawing from the Kalevala epic. Their 2025 album "Borderland" debuted at number one in Finland and was hailed as one of the year's best prog-metal releases, cementing three decades of creative evolution.
Amoteph plays heavy metal from Gällivare, a remote mining town in Swedish Lapland above the Arctic Circle, since 2003. Over two decades from one of Sweden's most northern settlements, they deliver classic heavy metal forged in polar extremity.
Amoth explores progressive and heavy metal from Helsinki since 2011, their Tolkien-derived name referencing a Quenya word for 'uprising.' Over a decade of activity in the Finnish capital, they have built a reputation for ambitious, classically informed heavy metal.
Amphigory merges death, thrash, and heavy metal from Eggenfelden in Lower Bavaria since 2020. Named after the literary term for a deliberately nonsensical composition, they bring a playful chaos to their triple-genre approach from rural Bavaria.
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