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Ad Astra (2025)
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Free the Witch EP (2018)
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Act of Defiance is a thrash metal band from Los Angeles, California. Featuring former members of Megadeth, the band delivers precision thrash metal with the technical chops and polish of seasoned professionals across two full-lengths.
Split's Act of Denial deliver a potent fusion of death metal, groove metal, and melodic death metal from Croatia's second-largest city. Launched in 2024, they bring a multi-genre approach to extreme metal with polished production and technical proficiency.
Act of Destruction is a melodic death and thrash metal band from the Downers Grove and Chicago area of Illinois. The band blends the melodic sensibilities of Scandinavian death metal with the raw aggression of American thrash.
Act of God is a thrash metal band from Bloomington, Illinois. The band plays aggressive, no-frills thrash metal from the heart of the Midwest.
Act of Impalement is a doom/death metal band from Nashville, Tennessee. With five releases to their name, the band has established a formidable presence in the Southern doom-death scene, grinding out slow-motion devastation with a distinctly Southern heaviness.
Act of Mercy is a deathcore band from the Minneapolis and Saint Paul area of Minnesota. The band delivers crushing breakdowns and guttural vocals from the Twin Cities underground.
Act of Revenge is a groove/death metal and deathcore band from Salvador, Bahia, formed in 2015 and anchored by vocalist Danfacto Oliveira, whose performance earned the band Best Vocalist honors at the Prêmio Palco do Rock 2014 popular vote — the same year they also won Best Band. Their 2018 EP 5 Atos delivers heavy, groove-driven material entirely in Portuguese, and the band has performed across multiple editions of the Festival Palco do Rock, establishing them as one of Salvador's most visible acts in the heavy underground.
Act of Violence is a thrash metal and metalcore band from Columbus, Ohio. With five releases spanning their career, the band fuses thrash metal's riff-driven aggression with the intensity of hardcore punk.
Act of War is a melodic death metal band from West Lafayette, Indiana. The band blends the twin-guitar harmonies of melodic death metal with the raw energy of the Midwest metal scene.
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