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Manual Manic Procedures (2024)
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Monolith of Inhumanity (2012)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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Kansas City death metal outfit delivering surgical heaviness from the heartland, channeling Missouri's overlooked but productive underground metal scene into unrelenting brutality.
Aserah channels groove metal from Cartagena in Murcia since 2018, named after the ancient Canaanite mother goddess. From this Roman-founded Mediterranean port city, they deliver rhythm-heavy metal with historical depth.
Los Angeles grindcore project — their name means 'assassin' in Spanish — with three releases since 2012. Lo que llevamos dentro and Mas Victimas deliver bilingual extremity from LA's massive Latin American metal community.
Chalcis' Asfix deliver heavy and thrash metal from the capital of Euboea, bringing high-energy riffing and aggressive vocals to the island's growing metal community. Active since 2021, they represent the spread of Greek metal beyond the major urban centres.
Asfixia erupted from Sagunto in 2025 as one of Valencia's newest thrash metal acts, bringing suffocating aggression to a city better known for its Roman ruins. Their early work carries the hungry energy of a band with everything to prove.
Asfixia is a thrash metal band from Campinas, São Paulo, one of Brazil's most active metal cities outside the capital. The band operates in the old-school thrash tradition, drawing on the deep legacy of the Campinas and São Paulo underground scenes that have produced dozens of aggressive thrash acts since the mid-1980s.
Thessaloniki's Asfodelos ('asphodel' - the flower of the underworld in Greek mythology) emerged in 2023 with death metal rooted in mythological darkness. Their botanical-mythological name connects them to the realm of the dead, a fitting emblem for their crushing sound.
Wilmington/Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina stoner metal act with releases spanning their career on Bandcamp. Win Us Over and the single Pyramid Wheels deliver sun-baked, heavy grooves from the Carolina coast — beach music for people who prefer riffs to reggae.
Asgar is a black metal band from Jena in Thuringia, Germany, formed in 2011, channeling the genre's cold aggression from the historic university city in central Germany. The band contributes to Thuringia's dedicated black metal underground.
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