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Irrational Pull (2020)
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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Featured Metalcore Album
The Powerless Rise (2010)
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Omis' Azog deliver traditional heavy metal from a small Dalmatian town nestled where the Cetina River meets the Adriatic, their Tolkien-derived name (the pale orc) signalling a love of epic fantasy. Since 2018, they've brought classic metal spirit to one of Croatia's most scenic locations.
Azoic has operated from Reykjavík since 1998, making them one of Iceland's longer-running black metal entities. Their geological name, referencing the era before life existed on Earth, speaks to the primordial barrenness their music explores.
Azor is a heavy metal band from Ameghino, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, formed in 2015. The band has contributed to regional metal compilations including "Awqatinku - Volumen 3", a collection documenting underground metal acts from across Argentina.
Azote delivers groove and thrash metal from Madrid since 2019, hitting with the punishing impact their whip-like name implies. Their hybrid approach fuses the rhythmic heaviness of groove metal with thrash's velocity.
Ruthless Technical / Progressive Death Metal from Austin.
Azoth is a thrash metal band from Brasília, Brazil, active since 2015. Named after the alchemical term for mercury and the philosophical universal solvent, the band delivers aggressive, riff-driven thrash rooted in the classic Bay Area and Brazilian traditions. They remain an active presence in the Brasília metal underground and maintain a Bandcamp profile through Azoth Recordings.
Epic Melodic Power Metal from Houston.
Aztakea crafts sludge and doom metal from Karlstad in Värmland since 2018. Their Mesoamerican-sounding name adds ancient civilizational weight to heavy, slow-moving compositions from this western Swedish lakeside city.
England's Aztec Winter create cavernous doom and drone metal that unfolds at glacial pace, enveloping the listener in dense layers of distortion and feedback. Since 2018, the project has explored the most minimal and meditative extremes of the doom spectrum.
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