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Indiana death metal act bringing grinding extremity from the Hoosier State, operating in the brutal underground with unflinching commitment to sonic devastation.
Virginia Beach death metal act whose mid-2000s releases A Diamond For Disease and United In Regret established them as technical death metal innovators. Their intricate, neoclassically influenced approach helped push the genre's boundaries from Hampton Roads.
Massive Stoner / Doom Metal out of Texas.
South Amboy, New Jersey melodic death metal project with three releases since 2018. SPIRIT | DEATH and Undead deliver Scandinavian-influenced melodeath from the Jersey Shore, building a catalog that spans seven years of refined extremity.
New Orleans hardcore punk and thrash supergroup formed in 2008, featuring members of Eyehategod, Superjoint Ritual, and other NOLA heavy hitters. Their self-titled debut distills the Crescent City's legendary underground into short, violent blasts of crossover fury.
Denver groove metal and hardcore project whose 2025 debut A DYING LIGHT channels punk urgency through heavy, rhythmic aggression. The all-caps title matches the intensity of their Colorado-bred metallic hardcore.
Arsonists Get All the Girls are a deathcore and mathcore band from Santa Cruz, California, formed in 2005 and noted in their early years for fusing aggressive extreme metal with electronic elements and dual keyboards. Signed to Century Media Records, they released five studio albums including Hits from the Bow and The Game of Life, and toured with acts such as Darkest Hour and Carnifex. After years of dormancy, the band held reunion performances in 2024 and 2025, maintaining a dedicated cult following within the technical metalcore community.
Arsonists of Lucifer practices black metal from an undisclosed Swedish location since 2018. Their fire-starting-for-Satan name drives compositions of incendiary blasphemy.
Arsura channels power and thrash metal from Buglio in Monte in the Alpine Sondrio province of Lombardy as of 2025. Their Italian name meaning 'scorching heat' brings fire and intensity from a mountain setting more associated with snow.
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