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People Watching (2024)
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L'Enfant Sauvage (Special Edition) (2012)
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The Necrotic Manifesto (Bonus Tracks Edition) (2023)
11/14 @ The Majestic Ventura Theater, Ventura
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Among the Shadows (2024)
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Adgarios channels folk metal from Padua since 2019, drawing on the Celtic and pre-Roman heritage of the Veneto region. Their name nods to the ancient Venetic civilization that inhabited the area millennia before the city's famed university was founded.
Adge is a black metal, ambient, and dungeon synth project from the Canary Islands, Spain, formed in 2023, creating a blend of atmospheric black metal and medieval-inspired dungeon synth from the Atlantic archipelago off the coast of Africa. The project brings an unusual geographic origin to the typically northern European-dominated genres of black metal and dungeon synth.
Doom metal project of unknown origin. The Irish Gaelic name channels Celtic mysticism through crushing heaviness.
Black metal project of unknown origin. The name implies devotion — whether to darkness, tradition, or the genre's uncompromising principles.
Adhezja channels stoner and southern metal from Lublin since 2017. Their Polish name meaning 'adhesion' captures the sticky, swamp-thick quality of their Americana-influenced heaviness from eastern Poland.
Adiant are a symphonic metal band from Styria, Austria, who released their debut album Killing Dreams in November 2021 and followed it with Witches Dance in September 2024. Their sound combines orchestral arrangements with melodic death metal heaviness, drawing comparisons to continental European symphonic metal acts.
Adiaphoria explores progressive metal from the Île-de-France region since 2011, their Greek philosophical name meaning "indifference" reflecting a coolly cerebral approach to the genre. Their compositions favor intellectual exploration over emotional display.
Adimiron has undergone a striking evolution from melodic death and black metal into progressive thrash and death territory since forming in Rome in 2009. Their willingness to reinvent their sound speaks to the creative restlessness of the Roman extreme metal underground.
Chapel Hill, North Carolina grindcore project named after the waxy substance formed on decomposing bodies. The forensic science term suits the clinical precision of their extremity.
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