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People Watching (2024)
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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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Thessaloniki's Admonisher deliver commanding power metal with heavy metal muscle, built on galloping rhythms, soaring vocals, and triumphant guitar leads. Since 2015, they've upheld the Greek tradition of epic, classically-influenced heavy metal.
Southeast Texas black metal project from Beaumont specializing in atmospheric, melodically charged darkness. Their earliest material hints at a band reaching for sweeping grandeur within the raw black metal framework.
Adnauseam is an Italian-American death metal and grindcore project that defies genre boundaries with their mathematically precise yet chaotic approach to extreme music. Their album "Nihil Quam Vacuitas Ordinatum Est" is a study in controlled dissonance, layering atonal guitar work over intricate blast patterns in a way that feels simultaneously calculated and unhinged. Their Roadburn 2025 live set captured the visceral intensity of their performance in a festival known for pushing sonic extremes.
Birmingham, Alabama black metal project. The Latin-flavored name evoking 'toward pain' channels Deep South darkness.
Adom creates sludge and doom metal from Vicenza since 2013, layering crushing heaviness over Palladio's architectural city. Their Hebrew-derived name meaning 'red' or referencing the first human speaks to the primal, earth-bound quality of their Veneto-born heaviness.
Adon is a California black metal project that emerged in 2020 with their EP "Arkane." Little is known about the entity behind the project, which channels occult themes through four tracks of atmospheric black metal.
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Adoniram channels atmospheric black metal and ambient from Izhevsk in Udmurtia as of 2025. Named after the Masonic legendary figure, they bring esoteric-fraternal mysticism to their Ural-born atmospheric approach.
Adonis is a speed and thrash metal band from Los Angeles. Their sound nods to the classic speed metal revival while incorporating modern production sensibilities, drawing from LA's rich tradition of high-velocity metal.
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