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Infinite Terror (2024)
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With Fang and Claw (2025)
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Drowned in my Loneliness (2008)
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Algorithmics delivers progressive, melodic death, and thrash metal from Tomsk as of 2025. Their computational name drives technically precise compositions from this western Siberian science city, home to one of Russia's premier universities.
Alias Noone combines death metal, melodic death metal, and progressive metal from Helsinki since 2021, exploring the genre's most technically demanding intersections. Their anonymous-sounding name contrasts with the distinctive musical identity they've carved out.
Alien Garden creates progressive death metal from Vladimir, one of Russia's ancient Golden Ring cities, since 2015. Their extraterrestrial-botanical name drives compositions that cultivate otherworldly growth from fertile historical soil.
Alienations explores progressive and thrash metal from Saint Petersburg since 2017. From Russia's northern capital on the Neva River, they channel feelings of estrangement through technically demanding compositions.
Alitor explores progressive thrash metal from Inđija in Vojvodina since 2013. Over a decade from this northern Serbian town between Belgrade and Novi Sad, they have refined technically demanding thrash compositions.
All Seeing Eyes merges heavy and progressive metal from Hertfordshire since 2020, their omniscient name reflecting compositions that survey the full breadth of the metal landscape. Their Home Counties origins feed a sound of panoramic ambition.
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.
All Things Fallen explores progressive metal from Borås in Västergötland since 2019. Their comprehensive-collapse name drives compositions of elaborate structural complexity from this western Swedish textile-industry city.
Alley explores progressive death metal from Krasnoyarsk since 2013. Over a decade from this major Yenisei River city in central Siberia, they have navigated intricate compositional pathways through death metal's most demanding territory.
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