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Audio Kollaps is a death metal, grindcore, and crust band from Hanover, Germany, founded in 1998 by three members of the hardcore punk band Recharge, blending hard, aggressive riffs with concise, nihilistic lyrics. Their releases Ultima Ratio, Music from an Extreme Sick World, and Panzer deliver a brutal mixture of death metal, grindcore, and hardcore punk.
Portland, Maine avant-garde and progressive metal project. The name merges audio technology with absence, signaling an experimental approach to heavy music from New England's cultural hub.
Chicago death metal band delivering sonic annihilation from the Windy City, contributing to Illinois's seemingly bottomless well of extreme metal talent.
Audiocitadel channels groove and industrial metal from the Tomsk Oblast since 2024. Their sonic-fortress name drives mechanized heaviness from this western Siberian region.
Black metal project operating with minimal public information, delivering raw extremity from the shadows of the American underground.
Audiorrea has been grinding out death metal and grindcore from the Catalan city of Reus since 2010. Their name, a play on "diarrhea," signals a band that values sonic excess and visceral impact above all else.
Newport News, Virginia progressive metal project with four releases since 2012. Neo-Terran Front and Secret Language span a decade of ambitious, sci-fi-influenced prog from the Hampton Roads shipbuilding region.
Audiotopsy is an alternative metal and nu-metal band from Peoria, Illinois, formed in 2015 by members drawn primarily from Mudvayne and Skrape: vocalist Billy Keeton (Skrape), guitarist Greg Tribbett and drummer Matthew McDonough (both Mudvayne), and bassist Perry Stern. Signed to Napalm Records, their self-produced debut Natural Causes arrived in 2015, followed by The Real Now in 2018 and The Calling. Their sound revisits the heavy groove and aggressive dynamics of early-2000s alternative metal.
Audiovision delivers heavy and melodic power metal from Kungsör in Södermanland since 2016. Their sensory-fusion name drives a decade of compositions that unite sonic and visual imagination from this small Mälaren Valley town.
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