Adrift is a progressive death metal band from the small Southern Illinois town of Du Quoin. Their 2006 EP "Waterloo" is a compact three-track statement blending progressive ambition with death metal weight, emerging from an unlikely corner of the Midwest metal underground.

Aduanten is a melodic death metal band from Austin, Texas. With two EPs — 2021's "Sullen Cadence" and 2025's "Apocryphal Verse" — the band delivers tightly constructed melodic death metal that adds to Austin's growing extreme metal presence.

Los Angeles death metal project. The name signals opposition and hostility from the city's vast underground.

Adversary is a death metal band from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Their 2009 full-length "A Bright Cut Across Velvet Sky" is a fifteen-track deep cut of underground death metal from the desert Southwest.

Adversary Enfleshed is a slam and brutal death metal band from Lake Station, Indiana. Their 2024 EP "PUNCTURED" delivers six tracks of guttural, slamming brutality — the kind of low-tuned violence that defines the most extreme end of death metal.

California death metal project. The name channels struggle and hardship into Golden State extremity.

Advorsa is a death metal band from Chicago. Their 2018 debut "Corruptor of Dead Flesh" and 2020 follow-up EP "Amalgamation of Horrors" showcase punishing old-school death metal rooted in the city's storied tradition of the genre.

Aegaeon is an atmospheric deathcore band from Evansville, Indiana. Their 2018 full-length "Age" pushes deathcore into spacious, atmospheric territory across eleven tracks, incorporating ambient elements and progressive dynamics that set them apart from the genre's more formulaic acts.

Aelvica is a prolific black and death metal project from Pinellas County, Florida. Since 2022, the project has released an extraordinary number of albums built around a sprawling fantasy narrative — the "Aelvican Saga" — weaving blackened death metal with lore-driven concept albums about lichdragons, corpsewyrms, and cursed realms.

San Diego death metal and progressive project named after the character from Dan Simmons' Hyperion saga. Sci-fi-influenced extremity from Southern California.

Glasgow, Kentucky death metal project. Cosmic-scale darkness from the Barren County cave country.

Bakersfield, California death metal project. Eternal death from the Central Valley's oil country.

Aeternum is a black and death metal project from California, still in its early stages with limited material released.

Philadelphia death metal project consuming the intangible element from the City of Brotherly Love.

Tacoma, Washington death metal project. Celestial extremity from the south Puget Sound.