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A Haunted Mantra is a melodic death metal project from Charlotte, North Carolina, releasing the single-track "Across the Blackened Sky" in 2011. The project merges the twin-guitar harmonies and sweep-picked melodies of Scandinavian melodic death metal with American heaviness. Though limited in output, the project represents Charlotte's contribution to the melodeath tradition.
A Killing Glance is a melodic death metal and metalcore band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2012, whose Time to Wake Up EP donates one hundred percent of profits to the Sea Shepherd ocean conservation organization. The band merges progressive and melodic death metal with accessible hooks, drawing comparisons to Dark Tranquillity and Obscura.
Budapest's A Losing Season blend melodic death metal with progressive sensibilities, crafting emotionally charged compositions that balance aggression with melodic depth. Since 2008, they've been a respected presence in Hungary's melodeath scene.
A Mind Confused delivers melodic death metal from Haninge in the Stockholm metropolitan area since 1997. Nearly three decades from this southern Stockholm suburb, they have maintained one of Sweden's most enduring melodic death metal legacies.
Fredericksburg, Virginia melodic death metal project. The autobiographical suffering implied in the name adds personal weight to Scandinavian-influenced extremity.
A New Dawn blends melodic death, gothic, and heavy metal from Rotterdam since 2012, their optimistic name promising renewal through the interplay of multiple metal styles. Over a decade in the Netherlands' second city, they have crafted a distinctively Dutch brand of melodic metal.
A deathcore band from Herford in North Rhine-Westphalia, A Plumbers Nightmare were founded in 2007 and built a festival presence over their active years. Their releases include the Demo(n) tape (2008), the Bloodwinger EP (2010), and the Medea EP (2012), delivering the genre's signature low-tuned brutality with a six-piece lineup.
A Secret Ending crafts symphonic and melodic death metal from an undisclosed Lithuanian location since 2020. Their narrative name suggests hidden resolutions revealed through the dramatic interplay of orchestral arrangements and extreme metal aggression.
A Shed for the Dead creates melodic death metal from Haugesund on Norway's western coast since 2022. Their morbid-architectural name evokes a mortuary structure, which their Rogaland-born melodic extremity furnishes with Swedish-influenced guitar harmonies.
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