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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Serpent & Spirit (2021)
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Make It Rain / On the Other Side of Tonight (2024)
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Athens' Anorimoi ('lawless ones' in Greek) have been delivering heavy metal with thrash metal teeth since 2005, blending the melodic power of traditional metal with the aggression of thrash. Their two-decade tenure makes them veterans of the Athenian metal scene.
Anorkia was a death metal band from Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, active in the early 2000s before splitting up. The band operated as an independent act within Brazil's underground death metal scene, releasing a self-produced demo in the mid-2000s with lyrical themes grounded in realism.
Black metal project that migrated from Raleigh to Columbus, Ohio. Their 2020 debut features a Greek-language title — The Forbidden Carnival — hinting at Mediterranean literary influences channeled through American black metal.
Minnesota black metal project whose 2023 EP Resplendent Apparitions at the Dawn trades in atmospheric, nature-obsessed black metal. The lush title contradicts the genre's usual bleakness, suggesting a more transcendent vision of extremity.
Another Dawn delivers thrash and power metal from Örebro since 2019. Their new-beginning name drives compositions that merge thrash aggression with power metal heroism from central Sweden.
Another Day Dawns is a hard rock trio from Lehighton, Pennsylvania, founded in 2010 by drummer Nick McGeehan and guitarist Tyler Ritter, with vocalist Dakota McGeehan completing the lineup. Their sound draws on post-grunge and alternative metal, citing influences ranging from Foo Fighters to Avenged Sevenfold, and the band built a regional following through support slots alongside Avatar, Buckcherry, and Cold. Their debut EP, Stranger, was recorded at Dark Horse Studios in Franklin, Tennessee and produced by Joe Rickard.
New York thrash metal project from the New York underground.
Another Destiny Project crafts heavy and power metal from Trieste since 2013. From the Adriatic port city at the crossroads of Italian, Slavic, and Germanic cultures, they deliver classic metal with the multinational energy their setting inspires.
Another Hell merges groove and death metal from the Umeå and Åsele area since 2011. Their alternative-inferno name drives fifteen years of rhythmic brutality from the forests of Västerbotten.
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