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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Providence, Rhode Island metalcore project. The name's negation of hopelessness offers an unusually optimistic entry point for aggressive music.
Athens' Absense blend melodic death metal with metalcore energy, creating an accessible yet aggressive sound built on soaring guitar harmonies and powerful breakdowns. Since 2020, they've brought a modern edge to the Greek melodeath tradition.
Absenth has navigated from melodic death and doom metal through industrial gothic to melodic metalcore from Voronezh since 2005. Two decades of stylistic reinvention from this Black Earth Region city speak to relentless creative restlessness.
Absolute Terror Field takes its name from the defensive barriers in Neon Genesis Evangelion, delivering melodic death metal and metalcore from Rome since 2019. Their anime-inspired identity informs an approach that balances aggression with the dramatic, narrative-driven intensity of their source material.
Absorption delivers metalcore from London since 2018, their name evoking the complete immersion their sound demands. The project contributes to the English capital's diverse heavy music landscape.
Acephalia is a slam and brutal death metal band from the Connecticut and Ohio area. Their 2026 EP "Visceral Atrophy" delivers three tracks of guttural, bone-crushing slam brutality.
Acheode has undergone a significant evolution from melodic death metal and metalcore beginnings to technical death metal and deathcore, operating from Verona since 2012. Their stylistic journey reflects the restless creative energy of the Veneto metal underground.
Wilmington, North Carolina metalcore project whose name is 'America' spelled backwards. Patriotism inverted through aggressive music from the Cape Fear coast.
Across a Blackened Sky hail from Saalfelden in the Salzburg region and play a hybrid of death metal, thrash, and metalcore. They have released two albums — Chaos Of Mind (2012) and their self-titled record in 2017 — reflecting a band that leans on the abrasive crossover between classic extreme metal and modern heavy music.
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