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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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Liars & Thieves (2024)
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Chicago death metal outfit active since 2010. Their debut EP Burning Lies and full-length Living in the Wrong Time deliver straightforward, punishing death metal from a city whose extreme underground runs deep beneath the blues and jazz surface.
Riverside, California black metal project that emerged in 2025 with two EPs in quick succession. Comes the Green Man and Journey Through Mist and Mountain deal in nature-worshipping atmospheric black metal, drawing unlikely inspiration from the Inland Empire's sun-scorched landscapes.
Ancient Hatred is a black metal band from Tallinn, Estonia, formed in 2009, manifesting melancholy, emptiness, and death through atmospheric black metal compositions. The band's catalog includes demos, EPs, and full-lengths spanning from the early Nightfall demo through Oath of Death and Glorification of the End.
Ancient Hymns brings death metal from Galicia's northwest corner, carrying forward the region's growing reputation for extreme music since their 2024 formation. Their early work channels the primal energy of a band just beginning to stake their claim in Spain's death metal underground.
Ancient Immortality creates metalcore from Moscow since 2020. Their paradoxical name — the old that never dies — brings a timeless quality to the contemporary aggression of their metalcore compositions.
Ancient Land were a pagan black/death metal band from Embu das Artes, on the outskirts of São Paulo, who blended black and death metal with symphonic elements and themes of freedom, paganism, nature, and anti-Christianity. Their Bandcamp catalogue includes the releases In My Solitude…, In the Name of the Cross…, The Symphony of War, and Destroys the Lies before the band dissolved.
Pasadena black metal project whose 2021 single features a vaporwave-styled title in full-width Unicode characters. A collision of internet aesthetics and black metal that signals something stranger and more modern than the ancient name suggests.
Ancient Lore is a black metal band from Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, active since 2010, channeling the genre's characteristic aggression and dark atmospherics. With over a decade of activity, the band has maintained a persistent presence in the western German black metal underground.
Ancient Malice brings death metal and grindcore from Dublin as of 2025, joining the city's expanding roster of extreme metal acts. Their unapologetically violent name signals the primal savagery at the core of their sonic assault.
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