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Abducted is a progressive death metal band from Port Huron, Michigan. Their 2016 full-length "I See The World" delivers ten tracks that weave progressive complexity through a death metal foundation.
Abduction is a heavy and thrash metal band from Danbury, Connecticut. Since 2016, the band has released a full-length, two EPs, and a demo, blending high-energy thrash riffs with hard rock swagger.
Abductions is a black/death metal band from Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul — a city with one of Brazil's longest-established extreme metal traditions, home to legends like Krisiun. The band blends the fast-picked tremolo riffing and blast-beat intensity of death metal with black metal's raw atmosphere and misanthropic aesthetics. They are signed to Acid Vicious and remain active within Porto Alegre's thriving underground scene.
Abductum is a thrash metal band from Maracena near Granada, Spain, formed in late 2010, whose two albums The Unrevealed Truth and Behold the Man, released through Art Gates Productions, deliver pure thrash aggression in the 1980s tradition. The band's artwork is created by guitarist Noel Puente, and their sound has been praised for embodying the true thrash spirit with increasing aggression across each release.
Abel channels industrial and thrash metal from Amadora in the Lisbon metropolitan area since 2008. Named after the first murder victim in biblical tradition, they process that primal violence through the grinding mechanisms of industrial thrash.
Abel Blood is a stoner metal and rock band from New Hampshire. Their 2023 full-length "Arrival of the Waves" delivers nine tracks of riff-heavy, groove-laden stoner metal with a hazy, oceanic atmosphere.
Abel Is Dying has evolved from melodic death metal and metalcore origins in 2005 through a long run in Milan's heavy music scene. Their biblical name evokes primal violence, which their Lombard-bred sound has explored through multiple stylistic phases.
Abel Sequera is a progressive metal, shred, and djent artist from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2018, showcasing technical guitar virtuosity and complex rhythmic patterns within the progressive metal framework. The project brings the precise, rhythmically innovative approach of djent to the Catalan metal scene.
Abelion plays heavy metal from Kyiv since 2017. From the Ukrainian capital, they deliver classic heavy metal that draws strength from the city's resilient cultural spirit.
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