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A Past Embrace (2022)
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Hold Your Children Close and Pray for Oblivion (2016)
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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Detroit metalcore band drawing from the Motor City's working-class intensity, delivering aggressive melodic metal informed by Michigan's proud tradition of heavy music.
Athens, Georgia black metal project with an astonishing eleven releases since 2023. Titles like Fuck This Torture and Crown of Nothing pair raw emotional honesty with prolific output, building a massive catalog of unfiltered black metal from the Classic City's underground.
As We Fight is a metalcore band from Fredericia, Denmark, formed in 2011, delivering the genre's trademark combination of aggressive breakdowns and melodic passages from the Jutland city at the Little Belt strait. The band contributes to the Danish metalcore scene with their intense, hard-hitting approach.
As We Fucked is a metalcore band from Neuhaus am Rennweg in Thuringia, Germany, formed in 2024, bringing aggressive metalcore from the Thuringian Forest region. The band's provocative name and recent formation mark them as a fresh, uncompromising entry in the German metalcore underground.
As4del crafts death and doom metal from Vinnytsia since 2007. Nearly two decades from this central Ukrainian city on the Southern Bug River, their alphanumeric name has guided a body of dual-genre heaviness.
DeKalb, Illinois groove metal project with two EPs since 2011. Sweeter Things and Withdrawal deliver heavy, rhythmically driven music from the NIU college town, the titles hinting at addiction narratives beneath the riffs.
Asacris channels melodic black metal from Saransk, the capital of Mordovia, since 2020. From this Finno-Ugric republic city in the Volga region, they bring melodic refinement to black metal's harsh framework.
San Francisco thrash metal act whose 2009 debut GRILL 'EM ALL channels Bay Area thrash traditions through a food-truck aesthetic before delivering their self-titled full-length in 2024. Fifteen years between releases shows a band that plays by nobody else's timeline.
Asael is a symphonic black and thrash metal band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2020, combining orchestral grandeur with the speed and aggression of black and thrash metal. The band merges symphonic ambition with extreme metal intensity from Germany's capital city.
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