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Actual plays heavy metal from Prievidza in the Upper Nitra since 2021. Their direct, unpretentious name drives classic heavy metal from this central Slovak mining-district city.
Actum Est is a symphonic black metal band from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, featuring a six-piece lineup that incorporates cello alongside traditional metal instrumentation — a rare texture in Brazil's black metal scene. Formed in 2005 (catalogued under their current activity since 2013), the band released the demo Obscure Symphonies Into the Black Mantle in 2006, channeling themes of occultism and darkness through a lush, orchestrated approach that sets them apart from the rawer strains of the Brazilian underground.
Buford, Georgia groove metal project. The legal term for a guilty act adds courtroom drama to Atlanta-area heaviness.
Lamia's Actus Septem merge black and doom metal into ritualistic compositions steeped in occult atmosphere and funereal pacing. Since 2020, the project has explored the darker recesses of the Greek metal underground with a contemplative, almost liturgical approach.
Actvs Mortis is a death metal and grindcore band from Santa Cruz de Mieres in Asturias, Spain, formed in February 2019, featuring Txeffy on vocals, Diego and David on guitars, Carmelo on bass, and Remis on drums. Their catalog spans from early demos through the 2021 album Sempiternvs Terror to a 2023 three-way split with Anal Pus and Serrucho, blending death metal, grindcore, and groove elements.
Acualli is a death and black metal band from Long Beach, California. With nine releases to their name, the band has built a substantial body of work that draws from Mesoamerican themes and imagery, filtered through a lens of extreme blackened death metal.
Acursian is a melodic black metal project from College Grove, Tennessee. Across two releases, the project blends melodic guitar work with the raw intensity of black metal, set against the backdrop of rural Middle Tennessee.
Pennsylvania grindcore project named after kidney inflammation. Medical horror channeled through grinding extremity.
Acutor is a thrash/black metal band from Bogotá, Colombia, formed in 1993 and regarded as a seminal force in the Latin American metal underground. Their 1997 debut album "Dios Ha Muerto" — sung entirely in Spanish with nihilistic and anti-religious lyrics inspired by Nietzschean philosophy — established them as one of the genre's earliest and most distinctive voices on the continent. They have shared stages with major Colombian and international metal acts and remain active on the Viuda Negra Music label.
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