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Infinite Terror (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
With Fang and Claw (2025)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Drowned in my Loneliness (2008)
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Aftersighs merges groove and heavy metal from the French underground since 2024, creating a rhythmically driven sound tinged with emotional weight. Their wistful name adds a contemplative dimension to their metallic foundation.
Agabus merges groove metal with metalcore from Lecco on the shores of Lake Como since 2020. Named after a genus of diving beetles, they plunge into heavy, rhythmically driven territory from one of Lombardy's most scenic settings.
Against I has evolved from EBM and industrial rock into melodic groove and death metal from an undisclosed Swedish location since 2013. Their self-opposing name captures the internal conflict driving their stylistic transformations.
Aglomerat channels melodic death and groove metal from Nizhny Novgorod since 2023. Their industrial-materials name — an agglomerate being a mass of fused fragments — captures the welded-together quality of their dual-genre approach.
Ahasver merges groove, progressive, and sludge metal from Toulouse since 2022, creating a dense, multilayered sound from the Pink City. Named after the Wandering Jew legend, their music carries the weight of eternal restlessness.
Aint delivers melodic groove metal and metalcore from Žiar nad Hronom since 2021. From this Hron Valley town in central Slovakia, they channel rhythmic aggression through melodic sophistication.
Aion-6 creates melodic groove and power metal from Moscow since 2020. Their alphanumeric name — combining the Greek concept of an age with a number — drives compositions that blend rhythmic aggression with power metal melody.
Aku explores experimental and progressive groove metal from an undisclosed Polish location since 2013. Their brief, punchy name — meaning 'evil' in Finnish — carries a concentrated malevolence through genre-bending compositions.
Alessio Giacomi creates groove and progressive metal as a solo project from Italy since 2021, blending rhythmic heaviness with compositional complexity. The project serves as a vehicle for one musician's vision of technically sophisticated, riff-centered metal.
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