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Addicted to Pain was a heavy metal and hard rock band from São Paulo, Brazil, led by vocalist and keyboardist João Paulo Pretti and featuring a lineup with ties to prominent Brazilian acts including Warrel Dane's touring band, Noturnall, Shadowside, and Seventh Seal. Their debut EP "Queen of All Lies" was produced at Norcal Studios in São Paulo, with keyboardist Juninho Carelli of Noturnall guesting on the lead single "The Kings Never Die".
Addiction of a Murderer are a deathcore band from Kulmbach, Germany, whose 2010 debut Dancing Death EP delivers five tracks of breakdowns and guttural fury across eighteen concise minutes. Emerging from Upper Franconia, the band bring the genre's signature brutality to a region better known for its breweries than its extreme music.
Addikth delivers groove metal from Moscow since 2017. Their deliberately misspelled addiction name captures the compulsive rhythmic hooks of their groove-heavy approach from the Russian capital.
Adelaide is a deathcore band from Columbia, Tennessee. With three releases, the band brings punishing breakdowns and extreme vocals to the Middle Tennessee metal scene.
Las Vegas-bred rockers Adelitas Way burst onto the hard rock scene in 2009 with their self-titled debut and the anthem 'Invincible,' which became a staple on ESPN and WWE programming. Frontman Rick DeJesus leads the band through arena-ready hooks and muscular guitar tones that draw from post-grunge and alternative metal traditions. Their consistent output of radio-friendly yet hard-hitting rock has kept them touring relentlessly across the US festival circuit.
Death metal band founded in Lausanne, Switzerland in 2022, whose 2024 debut album "Resurgence" and its 2025 instrumental counterpart blend technical and progressive death metal with saxophone guest contributions and synthesizers. Produced by Alex Sedin, the band features drum programming alongside live bass and guitar, releasing material independently through Bandcamp.
Adelphophagy is a death metal band from Buffalo, New York. Named after the biological phenomenon of sibling cannibalism, the band delivers suitably savage death metal from the Western New York underground.
Adem thrashes from Kyiv since 2015. Their concise Turkish-Ukrainian name — meaning 'man' or 'person' in Turkish — drives over a decade of thrash from the Ukrainian capital.
Adema is an American nu metal band formed in Bakersfield, California in 2000, featuring vocalist Mark Chavez, who is the half-brother of Korn's Jonathan Davis. The band signed to Arista Records and achieved mainstream visibility with their self-titled debut in 2001, driven by the singles "Giving In" and "The Way You Like It," followed by Unstable in 2003. Despite significant lineup instability throughout their career, they remained active with intermittent activity into the 2010s.
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