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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)
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Among the Shadows (2024)
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Adrian Weiss is a progressive metal guitarist and solo artist from Düsseldorf, Germany, currently active in bands Gloryfull, Warrant, and SubOrbital. His four instrumental solo albums — Big Time, Easy Game, Criminal Record, and Dangerous Discipline — showcase his technical command across prog-metal and melodic instrumental rock, building on his earlier work with ThoughtSphere and Forces at Work.
Adrianachrome creates depressive and post-black metal from Novokuznetsk in Kemerovo Oblast since 2024. Their pharmacological name — evoking the oxidized form of adrenaline — drives compositions of neurochemical despair from the Kuznetsk Basin.
Adriano Arguelho is a shred and heavy metal guitarist from Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, operating as a solo project since 2022. Drawing on the tradition of Brazilian instrumental guitar, the project emphasizes technical, high-speed fretwork rooted in heavy metal.
Adrienne is a metalcore band from Massachusetts. With a self-titled EP in 2021 and "Summer's Beginning" in 2023, the band plays emotionally charged metalcore that draws from the rich hardcore and metal traditions of the New England scene.
Adrift is a progressive death metal band from the small Southern Illinois town of Du Quoin. Their 2006 EP "Waterloo" is a compact three-track statement blending progressive ambition with death metal weight, emerging from an unlikely corner of the Midwest metal underground.
Adronniy Nikolay delivers death metal and grindcore from an undisclosed Russian location since 2023. Their personal-name identity lends an intimate, diary-like quality to their extreme metal output.
Budapest's Adrya craft symphonic metal that blends orchestral grandeur with heavy guitar work and powerful female vocals. Since 2017, they've brought cinematic scope to the Hungarian metal scene with their dramatic, layered compositions.
Aduanten is a melodic death metal band from Austin, Texas. With two EPs — 2021's "Sullen Cadence" and 2025's "Apocryphal Verse" — the band delivers tightly constructed melodic death metal that adds to Austin's growing extreme metal presence.
Adumbrall is a black/death metal solo project from Euclides da Cunha, Bahia, Brazil, formed in 2020 by Athayde Neto, who also plays in the band Wiseblood. A one-man operation, Neto handles all instruments, vocals, and lyrics, channeling themes of nature, philosophy, enlightenment, horror, and lust across releases including "Through Passion, Through Pain, Through Blood" and "In a Blaze of Order."
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