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L'Enfant Sauvage (Special Edition) (2012)
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The Necrotic Manifesto (Bonus Tracks Edition) (2023)
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Adorn are a groove and thrash metal band from Kassel, Germany, formed in 2025 and releasing through Northern Silence Productions. Not to be confused with the UK atmospheric black metal act of the same name, this Hessian outfit brings riff-driven heaviness to central Germany's metal landscape.
Adorn 16 is a black metal project from Brooklyn, New York. Their 2019 single "Бесы (Besy)" — Russian for "Demons" — hints at Eastern European influences filtered through the lens of NYC's underground black metal scene.
Adragard channels black metal from Paganica, a town near L'Aquila in Abruzzo that was devastated by the 2009 earthquake, since 2018. Their music carries the weight of that trauma through compositions steeped in destruction and desolation.
Adramelech is a legendary Finnish death metal act from Loimaa, formed in 1991 alongside peers like Demilich and Demigod. Across albums like "Psychostasia" and "Pure Blood Doom," they perfected a style that weaves subtle melody through mid-paced death metal darkness, earning reverence as one of the most distinctive voices in Finnish death metal history.
Adrammelech is a black metal horde from Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil, formed in 2018 and oriented around themes of primordial gnosis, war, and Hyperborean mysticism. The five-piece — operating under pseudonyms including Masterwolf, Daswolf, Hades, and Terror — released a self-titled demo in 2018 on Battlefront Distro.
Adraste merges black metal with pagan themes from the Lille and Arras area since 2017, drawing from the pre-Christian traditions of northern France. Named after a Celtic war goddess, their sound carries the martial spirit of their Gallic namesake.
Adrasteia is a black metal and ambient project from Chicago that has been quietly prolific since 2019. Across demos, splits, and singles, the project weaves glacial ambient textures into raw black metal, with titles like "Hymnes de Glaciers" and "Eisblut" underscoring its fixation on frozen, desolate soundscapes.
Adremelech delivers death and thrash metal from the Northamptonshire village of Irthlingborough since 2023, named after the Assyrian deity associated with child sacrifice. Their demonic inspiration feeds compositions of uncompromising brutality from the East Midlands.
Heavy Death / Groove Metal from Abilene.
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