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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Affliction is a heavy metal band from Chicago with an explosive output since 2024. With nine releases in under two years — spanning full-lengths, EPs, and genre-hopping titles like "Hardcore Shmardcore" and "Pop Rox" — the project throws everything at the wall with punk-like abandon and a refusal to be pinned down.
Affliction Vector merges black and death metal from Trieste since 2020, their epidemiological name suggesting disease transmission through extreme music. From this northeastern Adriatic port city at Italy's Slovenian border, they spread their particular strain of dual-genre virulence.
Afflictive Emasculation is a brutal death metal band from Bilbao in the Basque Country, Spain, formed in 2012, whose 2012 debut Obscure Slam Vomition delivers seven tracks of slamming brutal death metal across thirty-one minutes. The band channels the most extreme end of death metal with compositions like Against Omnipresent Meekness and Overindulgence in Violence.
Afflictive Nature is a thrash metal and crossover band from San Antonio, Texas. In 2013, the band dropped two EPs and a split in rapid succession, delivering raw crossover thrash from the heart of South Texas.
Big Horn, Wyoming black metal project. Extremity from one of the least populated corners of the American West.
Afflitus is a melodic death metal and metalcore band from the Bronx, New York City. Their 2005 EP "Promises You Can't Keep" packs ten tracks into a single release, blending the melodic guitar harmonies of Scandinavian death metal with the urgency of New York hardcore.
Affluenza delivers groove metal from London since 2015, their socioeconomic-disease name adding satirical commentary to their rhythmically driven heaviness. Their approach channels the wealth-sickness of the English capital through crushing grooves.
Affres merges black metal's intensity with crust punk's raw energy from the Lorraine region since 2015, their French name meaning "dread" or "agony" capturing the emotional core of their sound. Their punk-metal crossover reflects the working-class traditions of northeastern France.
Affront delivers grindcore from Hajnówka in the Podlasie region near the Białowieża Forest since 2019. From this town at the edge of Europe's last primeval forest, they bring primal fury through blastbeat-driven extremity.
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