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Amazarak is a São Paulo black metal band with roots going back to 1997, when they operated under the name Mandragora before adopting their current name around 2001. The band deals in Satanic and anti-Christian themes, and their discography includes the 2009 full-length "Ascensão do Anticristo", a 2016 split with Nervochaos, and the 2023 release "Impuro Armagedom". Tracks like "Hino de Blasfêmia" and "Comando Blasfêmia" have circulated widely in Brazilian underground metal circles.
Amaze Knight explores progressive metal from Turin since 2013, their whimsical name pairing wonder with chivalric valor. Over a decade of activity in Piedmont, they have developed a compositional approach that balances technical proficiency with melodic accessibility.
Amazeroth is a black metal project from Innsbruck operating under the Hazeroth Bandcamp handle. The project maintains a minimal public profile, releasing material within the Austrian underground black metal community.
Amazing Maze has delivered power metal from Massa in the Apuan Alps region of Tuscany since 2011. Their alliterative name suggests the labyrinthine complexity they bring to the genre's anthemic traditions, carved from the same marble mountains that supplied Michelangelo.
Amazon delivers heavy metal from Copenhagen since 2015, their warrior-tribe name channeling the mythological female fighters into riff-driven compositions. A decade in the Danish capital has produced a body of work rooted in metal's most classic traditions.
Amazon is a melodic heavy metal and rock band from Valinhos, São Paulo, Brazil, playing a style influenced by European power and melodic metal traditions with a focus on themes of love, fantasy, and Brazilian culture. The band is associated with Ravenheart Music and was previously known as Silent Saga. Their sound sits in the melodic and accessible end of the Brazilian heavy metal spectrum.
Ambasador Rous channels black metal from Budinci in Prekmurje, the far northeastern corner of Slovenia near the Hungarian border, since 2017. From one of the country's most remote and least populated areas, they bring frontier darkness.
Minneapolis death metal and grindcore hybrid that emerged in 2010 with the Fear & Coercion EP. The band fuses blistering speed with metalcore breakdowns, drawing from the Twin Cities' long tradition of extreme music.
Ambassadors of the Sun crafts stoner metal and rock from Falun in Dalarna since 2020. From this historic copper-mining town — whose famous red paint colored half of Sweden's wooden houses — they channel solar energy through fuzz-laden riffs.
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