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Let You Go (2024)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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One Day Closer to the End of the World (2019)
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Brookfield, Wisconsin thrash metal project. The name blends acropolis and prophet — elevated prophetic metal from the Milwaukee suburbs.
Acrophobia plays heavy and thrash metal from Genoa, the Ligurian port city, since 2017. Named after the fear of heights — ironic for a city built on steep hillsides — their sound pairs the classic twin attacks of heavy and thrash metal with Mediterranean intensity.
Acrosome creates post-black metal from Ankara since 2014. Named after the sperm cell's cap-like structure, their biological-microscopy identity drives atmospheric compositions from the Turkish capital.
Across a Blackened Sky hail from Saalfelden in the Salzburg region and play a hybrid of death metal, thrash, and metalcore. They have released two albums — Chaos Of Mind (2012) and their self-titled record in 2017 — reflecting a band that leans on the abrasive crossover between classic extreme metal and modern heavy music.
Across Antarctica is a death metal band originally from Binghamton, New York, later relocated to Tampa, Florida. The band channels the brutality of the Tampa death metal tradition.
Across Silence delivers melodic death metal from the Kungälv and Gothenburg area since 2014. Their atmospheric name drives over a decade of compositions from the metropolitan region that birthed the Gothenburg sound.
Across Taiga merges black and doom metal from Halland in southwestern Sweden since 2021. Their boreal-forest name — the vast coniferous biome — brings Siberian-scale wilderness imagery to their Nordic compositions.
Across the Burning Sky delivers melodic death metal from an undisclosed Swedish location since 2016. Their apocalyptic-horizon name drives compositions of fiery melodic intensity.
Across the Rain channels melodic death metal and metalcore from Moscow since 2012. Over a decade of activity, their meteorological name has guided compositions that push through emotional storms.
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