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Featured Album
"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Acting Out merges groove metal, industrial metal, and thrash metal from Villeurbanne in the Lyon metropolitan area since 2016. Their genre-crossing approach creates a mechanized heaviness that reflects the industrial character of their urban surroundings.
Action Jackson are a death metal, melodic death metal, and metalcore band from Berlin, Germany, active since 2012, who blend multiple strains of modern extreme metal. Their sound navigates the intersection of death metal aggression, melodic precision, and metalcore dynamics from the heart of Germany's capital.
Activated thrashes from Kyiv since 2021. Their energized name drives compositions of catalyzed aggression from the Ukrainian capital, bringing fresh thrash energy to a nation under immense pressure.
New York City crossover thrash, hardcore punk, and thrash metal project. The name promises catalytic energy from the city that never stops.
Actokill delivers thrash metal from Espoo, Helsinki's western neighbor and Finland's second-largest city, since 2020. Their assassin-themed name matches the lethal precision of their thrash attack.
Acts of Vengeance brings heavy metal and thrash from Hertfordshire since 2024, their retaliatory name capturing the aggressive energy of their dual-genre assault. The project represents the newest wave of traditional metal from the Home Counties.
Edinburgh's Ad Extirpanda merges black and thrash metal, named after the papal bull authorizing torture during the Inquisition. Over a decade of activity since 2010 has established them within Scotland's extreme metal community.
Ad Inceptum merges thrash and black metal from Khabarovsk in the Russian Far East since 2016. Their Latin name meaning 'to the beginning' drives compositions that seek origins through the combined aggression of thrash and black metal from the Amur River city.
Ad Nebula Nigra merges black and thrash metal from Burgos in Castile and León since 2016. Their Latin name meaning 'to the black cloud' conjures the dark skies above the Castilian plateau that their extreme metal channels.
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