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Ashburn/Sterling, Virginia crossover thrash and metalcore project whose parenthetical name signals deliberate anonymity. Northern Virginia aggression that refuses to identify its source.
3 Minutes of Hate is a death metal and groove metal band from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, formed in 2018. Describing their sound as "Metal Tropical para el mundo," the band draws from death metal, deathcore, groove, and nu-metal, and released their debut full-length Animal Instinct in 2020, collecting material written between 2012 and 2019.
8kids is a German post-hardcore band formed in Darmstadt in 2013 by vocalists and guitarists Hans Koch and Jonas Jakob. The band signed to Napalm Records in 2016 and released their debut studio album Denen die wir waren in 2017, followed by Blüten and the live release Wir bleiben Kids in 2019. Sung primarily in German, their music blends post-hardcore intensity with melodic accessibility, earning them a dedicated following in the German-speaking rock and metal underground.
Salt Lake City metalcore project. The political theory concept applied to heavy music from Utah's capital.
A Blackened Sight is a metalcore band from Colmenar Viejo near Madrid, Spain, formed in 2012, blending metalcore, melodic death metal, and progressive metal influences. Their discography includes the self-titled release, Bodies on the Road, TiK ToK, and the 2018 single Kintsukuroi, named after the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold.
Melodic metalcore with soaring choruses from East Texas.
A Day to Fall is a groove metal and melodic death metal project formed in 2011 with Argentine musicians, releasing the album Architects of Hate along with tracks such as Southern Flame and What Lies Ahead. The band blends melodeath intensity with metalcore-driven heaviness, drawing on the members' roots in the Argentine underground scene.
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A metalcore and thrash metal band from Dortmund formed in 2000, A Gift Called Anger brought together members of Frozen Illusion and Inhuman Conditions and spent years developing before recording their first demo Wounds in 2007. Their full-length The Rise, the Wounds, the Fear documents a band rooted in the NRW region's heavy underground tradition.
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