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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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Dial Tone (2022)
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Wareham, Massachusetts heavy metal band channeling classic NWOBHM and traditional metal energy. Their self-titled debut and acoustic follow-up show a band comfortable both plugged in and stripped down.
Athens' All Sins Undone emerged in 2023 with a punishing blend of death and thrash metal, delivering relentless aggression with technical precision. Their name suggests a thematic fascination with moral reckoning and absolution through violence.
Arizona atmospheric black metal project crafting immersive, nature-inspired black metal since 2014. Three releases explore themes of desolation and transcendence through layered tremolo work and ambient passages.
All Stars Are Dead is a post-black metal band from Nuremberg, Germany, whose raw, atmospheric sound explores themes of melancholy, despair, and apocalyptic finality. Their releases include the Tyrant demo and the album Solace in Surrender, both channeling the bleakness and intensity that define the post-black metal style.
All That Heaven Allows fuses black and death metal from the Scottish border town of Dumfries since 2023, their ironic Hollywood-melodrama name contrasting with the extremity of their sound. Their Dumfries and Galloway origins feed a uniquely Scottish perspective.
Springfield, Massachusetts metalcore institution that helped bring melodic death metal influences into mainstream American heavy music. Their later work shifted toward melodic hard rock while maintaining their metal edge.
All the Cold has evolved from ambient black metal into progressive rock from Murmansk, Russia's largest Arctic city, since 2013. Their cold-embracing name naturally suits music born above the Arctic Circle, where winter darkness lasts months.
New York City melodic death metal project. Encompassing everything that exists through Scandinavian-influenced extremity.
All the Fury channels melodic death metal from Košice in eastern Slovakia since 2018. From Slovakia's second-largest city, they deliver compositions that harness all available fury through melodic precision.
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