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A Place for Murder has practiced death metal from Bologna — Italy's culinary and cultural crossroads — since 2011. Their noir-tinged name contrasts with Bologna's warmth, bringing a cold, methodical violence to the Emilia-Romagna underground.
A Plague in Faith is a technical death metal band from Kansas City, Missouri. Their 2015 full-length "Resonating Blasphemy" delivers nine tracks of punishing, technically demanding death metal rooted in the Midwest underground.
A deathcore band from Herford in North Rhine-Westphalia, A Plumbers Nightmare were founded in 2007 and built a festival presence over their active years. Their releases include the Demo(n) tape (2008), the Bloodwinger EP (2010), and the Medea EP (2012), delivering the genre's signature low-tuned brutality with a six-piece lineup.
A Berlin-based power/death metal band active from 2010 to 2015, A Pocket Sized Sun took their name from a Tiamat song and applied it to music that deliberately avoided conventional song structures in favor of melodic development and variation. Their sole release, the Fallout EP, mixed melodic death metal riffing with power metal sensibility and was mixed and mastered at Winter Solitude Studios.
A Portrait of Flesh and Blood is a symphonic and depressive black metal project from Los Angeles, California. Their 2015 full-length "The Pale Enchantress" weaves orchestral grandeur with raw black metal despair across seven tracks of atmospheric extremity.
A Pregnant Light is a prolific post-black metal and hardcore project from Grand Rapids, Michigan. Mastermind Damian Master has released an enormous body of work blending black metal with post-punk, shoegaze, and hardcore influences, maintaining a relentless output of singles, EPs, and full-lengths that defy easy categorization.
A Prison Called Earth channels progressive metal from Nantes since 2010, using their existential name as a launching point for compositions that explore humanity's confinement. Their French perspective brings Gallic sophistication to the genre's technical ambitions.
A deathcore band from Belém, Pará, in the Amazon region of northern Brazil, formed in 2014 with a lineup of Leonan Ferreira (vocals), Igor Sampaio and Vinicius Carvalho (guitars), Marcos Saraiva (bass), and Luciano Camara (drums). Their discography spans a decade of independent releases including A Red Nightmare (2014), Thousand Blind Eyes (2020), and Through Vile Lens (2024), with themes of pain, social critique, and suffering delivered through technical and aggressive deathcore.
A Refraction creates atmospheric black metal and ambient from Tiraspol in the breakaway region of Transnistria, Moldova, since 2020. Their physics-derived name — the bending of light — captures the distorted, otherworldly quality of their compositions from one of Europe's most geopolitically unusual locations.
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