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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.
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.
Acweald merges black metal with punk from Minsk, Belarus since 2020. Their Old English name, meaning 'killed' or 'destroyed,' combined with their genre blend speaks to a spirit of resistance emerging from the Belarusian capital.
Acyl blends folk metal with progressive metal from Paris since 2010, weaving traditional world music elements into technically ambitious compositions. Their chemical name, referencing an organic chemistry functional group, suits their approach of bonding disparate musical elements into cohesive structures.
Acârash merges black and doom metal from Oslo since 2018. Their diacritical-laden name adds an exotic visual element to their Nordic fusion of two extreme styles.
Ad Astra is a death and black metal project from St. Mary's County, Maryland. Remarkably prolific with twelve releases, the project explores the cosmic and the extreme through a relentless output of blackened death metal.
AD Atausma channels black metal from an undisclosed Swedish location as of 2025. Their cryptic name adds mystery to freshly forged Swedish black metal.
Ad Baculum is a black metal project from Salvador, Bahia, led by Lord Hades — formerly the vocalist of legendary Brazilian cult act Mystifier — who handles all instruments except drums. The band's debut Blackness Doctrine (2011) drew directly from the raw black/death vein Hades helped pioneer in Mystifier, while the third album Opening the Abyss (2016), released on Brazilian Ritual Records, shifted toward slower, doom-saturated tempos with howling, cavernous vocals and cover art taken from Gustave Doré's illustrations of Dante's Inferno.
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