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People Watching (2024)
Featured Groove Metal Album
L'Enfant Sauvage (Special Edition) (2012)
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The Necrotic Manifesto (Bonus Tracks Edition) (2023)
11/14 @ The Majestic Ventura Theater, Ventura
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Among the Shadows (2024)
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Ferocious Thrash Metal from Victoria.
Acrimonia wields heavy and speed metal from Foggia in the Puglia flatlands since 2015. Their Latin-derived name meaning 'harshness' captures the biting edge they bring from this Adriatic-adjacent agricultural city.
A thrash metal and hardcore band from Dendermonde, East Flanders, occupying the aggressive crossover territory between Belgian thrash and hardcore punk. They operate as an independent act and have released material through their Bandcamp page.
Los Angeles death metal project. The name's hostility channels LA's darker undercurrents through extreme music.
Acritarch has been crafting industrial metal from the university city of Oxford since 2008, named after the microscopic fossils found in ancient rocks. Nearly two decades of mechanized heaviness from the City of Dreaming Spires creates a compelling contrast.
Acriter are a thrash metal duo from Brno, Czech Republic, whose minimalist lineup produces aggressive, riff-centered thrash within the tradition of old-school European extreme metal. The band maintains a Bandcamp presence under the handle "acriterduo" and contributes to the Czech underground thrash scene centered in Moravia.
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Acrocanth practices black metal from Penza in central Russia as of 2025. Named after a dinosaur genus, their prehistoric reference brings ancient ferocity to freshly forged black metal.
Acrodus thrashes from Ljubljana since 1995, making them one of Slovenia's longest-running thrash acts with three decades of activity. Named after an extinct shark genus, they bring prehistoric predatory energy to the Slovenian capital's metal scene.
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