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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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Philadelphia/New York grindcore project operating across the Northeast corridor, delivering blistering micro-blasts of socially conscious fury in the tradition of East Coast grind.
Athens' Artificial Sun fuse groove metal weight with metalcore aggression, creating a high-energy sound built on chunky riffs and dynamic breakdowns. Active since 2012, they bring an accessible heaviness to the Greek metal scene.
Artificum Nex practices black metal from Nizhny Novgorod since 2013. Their Latin name meaning 'death of the craftsmen' drives over a decade of dark compositions from the Volga-Oka confluence city.
Artilharia was a thrash/death metal band from Jaguariúna, São Paulo, with earlier roots in the band Hellhunter before a name change. Playing aggressive, garage-style extreme metal with Portuguese-language lyrics in a style reminiscent of 1980s Brazilian thrash, they released the demo Assassinos do Abismo before splitting up.
Artillery are a thrash metal band from Taastrup, Denmark, formed in 1982 and named after a track by British heavy metal act Tank. Their early albums Fear of Tomorrow (1985) and Terror Squad (1987) established them as one of Europe's most technically proficient thrash acts, and By Inheritance (1990) on Roadrunner Records is widely regarded as their defining work. After a lengthy hiatus, the band reformed and signed with Metal Blade Records, releasing a string of albums through the 2010s culminating in their tenth full-length, X, in May 2021.
Bellville, Ohio death metal project with two releases since 2009. Inhuman and The All Seeing Eye deliver conspiratorial, war-themed death metal from rural north-central Ohio.
Ohio grindcore project whose 2024 split with Tomb Perfume channels botanical grotesquerie through grinding extremity. Named after a real organism that shoots spore masses — a perfect metaphor for their explosive sound.
Cleveland death metal act unleashing brutal savagery from the shores of Lake Erie, continuing Northeast Ohio's seemingly endless pipeline of quality extreme metal.
Winnetka, California thrash metal project from the San Fernando Valley. The craftsperson name suggests a meticulous approach to thrash metal's construction.
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