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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Death metal act that migrated from Jacksonville to Houston, building a catalog of splits and full-lengths since 2017. Manufactured Dreams delivers the kind of grinding, unrelenting extremity that thrives in Texas's sprawling underground.
Milwaukee/Marquette thrash metal project spanning Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula since 2015. Four releases including the aptly titled Hell of an Existence channel Rust Belt frustration into furious thrash across state lines.
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania death metal outfit active since 2018. Three releases culminating in the full-length Instinctual Self-Slaughter trace an evolution from raw early EPs to refined brutality, all from Pennsylvania's capital city.
Finnish cello-metal pioneers Apocalyptica began as a Metallica tribute act at the Sibelius Academy before evolving into one of metal's most unique ensembles, performing original heavy music on classical cellos. Their genre-defying catalog spans from thrash-cello instrumentals to collaborations with vocalists like Corey Taylor and Brent Smith, proving that distorted cellos can be every bit as devastating as guitars.
Green Bay groove metal project from the Wisconsin underground.
Apocalyptor merges crust punk's raw fury with thrash metal's precision from the Finnish city of Lahti since 2014. Their crossover approach bridges the gap between punk's anarchic energy and metal's structural discipline.
Apoclibbon Doshol is an enigmatic Spanish black metal project that emerged in 2017, shrouded in the obscurity that defines the genre's most underground practitioners. Their deliberately cryptic identity and approach places them firmly within black metal's most esoteric traditions.
Cleveland death metal project from the Ohio underground.
Apocrifo was a thrash metal band from Fortaleza, Brazil, whose lyrical focus centered on the great fallacies and contradictions of modern society. The band released the two-track demo "No Alvo" in 2014, delivering tightly wound, palm-muted thrash in the classic Brazilian tradition before splitting up.
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