Acrid is a death metal band from Hagerstown, Maryland. Across two releases, the band delivers unrelenting death metal from the western Maryland underground.

Missouri death metal project. The caustic burial ground name promises an afterlife of corrosion.

Los Angeles death metal project. The name's hostility channels LA's darker undercurrents through extreme music.

Across Antarctica is a death metal band originally from Binghamton, New York, later relocated to Tampa, Florida. The band channels the brutality of the Tampa death metal tradition.

Acrucé Mortem is a black and death metal band from Atlanta, Georgia. The band channels the ferocity of blackened death metal from the heart of the Southern underground.

Lake Geneva, Wisconsin / Mount Prospect, Illinois death metal project. The biblical reference to demon-possessed pigs driven off a cliff channels sacrilege through Midwest extremity.

Acualli is a death and black metal band from Long Beach, California. With nine releases to their name, the band has built a substantial body of work that draws from Mesoamerican themes and imagery, filtered through a lens of extreme blackened death metal.

Ad Astra is a death and black metal project from St. Mary's County, Maryland. Remarkably prolific with twelve releases, the project explores the cosmic and the extreme through a relentless output of blackened death metal.

Ad Infinitum is a death metal band from Chicago, Illinois. With six releases, the band has maintained a consistent presence in the Windy City's storied death metal scene.

Adabesi Lives is a slam, brutal death metal, and goregrind project. The band pushes extreme metal to its most guttural and visceral limits across two releases of relentless brutality.

Adamantium is a death metal and crust band from California. The band merges the raw, political urgency of crust punk with the heaviness of death metal.

Adelphophagy is a death metal band from Buffalo, New York. Named after the biological phenomenon of sibling cannibalism, the band delivers suitably savage death metal from the Western New York underground.

Newark, Delaware death metal project named after the Sisters of Battle from Warhammer 40K. Tabletop gaming mythology rendered in extremity.

Black metal project of unknown origin. The name implies devotion — whether to darkness, tradition, or the genre's uncompromising principles.

Chapel Hill, North Carolina grindcore project named after the waxy substance formed on decomposing bodies. The forensic science term suits the clinical precision of their extremity.