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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Antropofago has been crafting technically demanding brutal death metal from Montpellier since 2010, earning the distinction of opening for Sepultura and performing at Metaldays. Their approach brings real songcraft to technical death metal, creating memorable compositions within a framework of extreme brutality.
Anxiety Addiction creates technical death metal and deathcore from Moscow since 2018. Their psychological-compulsion name drives compositions that feed on nervous energy through technical precision.
Architect of Seth delivers technical death metal from the Norman city of Caen since 2013, their Egyptian-mythological name referencing the god of chaos and destruction. Their technically demanding approach brings precision engineering to death metal's most brutal dimensions.
Arhideus delivers technical death metal from Moscow since 2023. Named after the half-brother of Alexander the Great who briefly served as king of Macedon, they bring ancient-world gravitas to modern technical precision.
Arreat Summit crafts technical death metal and deathcore from Linköping since 2013. Named after the mountain in the Diablo video game series, they bring gaming mythology to over a decade of technically demanding extremity.
Art Est is a technical death metal band from Leipzig, Germany, formed in 2020, whose releases include A Demon's Mind, Salvage the Earth, A Helix of Sirens, and the single Evil Embodiment. The band delivers the genre's demanding combination of extreme speed, complex rhythmic structures, and death metal ferocity from one of Saxony's cultural capitals.
Asperatus delivers technical death metal from Kraków since 2015. Named after the rare, turbulent cloud formation, their sound channels atmospheric turbulence through surgical-precision brutality from Poland's cultural capital.
Astral Emptiness explores atmospheric and technical deathcore from Rome since 2020. Their paradoxical name — cosmic void — drives compositions that pair the technical precision of deathcore with vast atmospheric spaces.
Athean is a technical death metal band from Heidelberg, Germany, formed in 2017, delivering the genre's demanding combination of extreme speed, complex time signatures, and precision musicianship. The band contributes to Heidelberg's metal scene with their technically ambitious approach to death metal.
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