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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.
A Karmic Gray is a metalcore act from Frazeysburg, Ohio, with four releases totaling 22 tracks since their emergence. The band incorporates guest features and genre-blending elements into their metalcore foundation, pointing toward a modern, collaborative approach. Their prolific output from a small rural Ohio town speaks to the democratization of extreme music production.
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.
New York City metalcore and thrash project named after the Exodus classic. Manhattan aggression paying tribute to Bay Area thrash royalty.
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