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AXTY is a metalcore and nu-metalcore band from São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2016 by vocalist Felipe Hervoso as a solo project originally named Anxiety, later expanding into a full quartet with guitarist Felipi Grivol, bassist Jonathas Peschiera, and drummer Gabriel Vacari. Their music draws on contemporary metalcore acts such as Architects and Bring Me the Horizon, incorporating electronic elements and alternating between harsh screams and clean vocals. Their 2024 album Hannya spans nu-metalcore, post-hardcore, and electronic territory, with lyrics centered on mental health and personal resilience.
Axxed is a heavy, speed, and thrash metal band from Mosbach in Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, combining the velocity of speed metal with thrash's aggressive precision and heavy metal's classic power. The band delivers a triple-genre assault from the Odenwald region of northern Baden.
Axxen Conners creates melodic groove and death metal from Antalya on Turkey's southern Mediterranean coast since 2016. From this tourist paradise surrounded by ancient ruins, they deliver a decade of rhythmically charged melodic extremity.
Axxis is a melodic heavy and power metal band from Dortmund, Germany, one of the veteran acts in the German power metal scene with a career stretching back to the late 1980s. The band has built an extensive catalog of anthemic, melodic power metal that has earned them a loyal following across Europe and beyond.
Axxon is a progressive heavy and power metal band from Aurich in East Frisia, Germany, formed in 2012, merging the structural complexity of progressive metal with power metal's melodic grandeur. The band brings ambitious, genre-crossing metal to one of Germany's northernmost and most remote regions.
Ayahuasca is a progressive death metal and deathcore band from Cologne, Germany, formed in 2013, named after the psychoactive Amazonian brew used in shamanic rituals. The band channels altered states and expansive consciousness into their blend of technical progressive death metal and deathcore aggression.
Ayat Akrass is a death metal/hardcore band from Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. The band blends the aggression of hardcore punk with death metal heaviness, with lyrical themes centering on equality, capitalism, and political resistance. Their 2003 demo "Quando o Preço da Glória é Pago com Sangue" (When the Price of Glory is Paid with Blood) was released jointly through the Shades Before Dawn and L-Dopa labels.
Ayax is a power metal band from Buenos Aires, Argentina whose lineup has included vocalist Nicolas Cabrera, guitarists Gustavo Dhaini and Martin Oviedo, bassist Oscar Pedini, keyboardist Pablo Marciello, and drummer Gustavo Nemitz. The band has been active in the Argentine power metal scene and released an early EP in 2005.
Aydra has delivered technical death metal from Ancona on the Adriatic coast of the Marche since 1996, making them one of Italy's longest-running technical death metal acts. Three decades of activity from this port city have produced a substantial body of technically demanding work.
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