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Slave to the Scalpel (2021)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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The Jester Race (Black Ash-Inheritance Version) (2022)
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New York City melodic death metal project launched in 2024 with a single sporting one of the longest titles in metal history. The absurdly named debut suggests a band with a sense of humor about the genre's conventions while still delivering the goods.
Ambiguitas channels black metal from Samara since 2013. Their Latin name meaning 'ambiguity' drives over a decade of compositions that embrace uncertainty and double meaning from the Volga bend.
Death/doom metal band from Switzerland, whose Bandcamp presence places them in the slow, heavy intersection of death and doom metal. They operate in the underground Swiss metal scene, crafting dense, suffocating material in the death-doom tradition.
Ambition is a heavy metal and hard rock band from Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, playing a straightforward blend of classic heavy metal riffs and hard rock energy. The band released material through Infernö Records, a French underground metal label known for promoting underground acts. They represent Curitiba's growing metal scene, a city that has produced a number of important Brazilian black and extreme metal bands.
Bainbridge Island, Washington death metal duo creating brutality from an unlikely Pacific Northwest island locale. Their 2021 debut MCLMXV001 and follow-up Subterranean EP deliver uncompromising heaviness that belies their serene surroundings.
A Prague-based death metal act, Ambivalency have a small physical discography documented on Discogs and represent the underground extreme metal scene of the Czech capital. Their music sits squarely in the aggressive, riff-driven tradition of European death metal.
Missouri crossover act blending hardcore punk energy with thrash metal velocity. Split between Springfield and Columbia, they carry the DIY spirit of the Midwest punk underground into heavier territory.
Ambivalentt is a groove and thrash metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2018. The band released a self-titled EP in April 2018, drawing on the city's rich tradition of crossover and groove-inflected thrash. São Paulo's dense metal underground has long been a hotbed for thrash acts pushing toward heavier and more rhythmically aggressive territory, and Ambivalentt fits squarely within that lineage.
Ambivalenz is a thrash metal band from Witten, Germany, formed in 2020, delivering the aggressive riffing and relentless energy that define the genre in its German heartland. Based in the Ruhr area, the band draws from the rich thrash metal legacy of the region that produced some of the genre's most iconic acts.
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