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Everyone's Talking! (2025)
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Blind (Expanded Edition) (2021)
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Blood Dynasty (24-bit HD audio) (2024)
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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.
Southeast Texas black metal project from Beaumont specializing in atmospheric, melodically charged darkness. Their earliest material hints at a band reaching for sweeping grandeur within the raw black metal framework.
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