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 NWOTHM project whose name references the Hindu philosophical concept of non-duality. Eastern spirituality meets Western heavy metal tradition.

Advent is a folk and heavy metal band from Los Angeles. Their 2015 full-length "Silent Sentinel" blends folk instrumentation and storytelling with traditional heavy metal across twelve tracks, creating something that straddles the line between folk rock grandeur and metal power.

Advent Varic is a blackened stoner/doom project from Boston, Massachusetts. Their contribution to a 2020 split with Opium Warlock captures the project's vision of fusing black metal's harsh textures with the low-end rumble of stoner doom.

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.

Adversary XIII is a black metal and acoustic project from California. Across three full-lengths and two EPs released between 2019 and 2024, the project alternates between raw black metal fury and stripped-down acoustic passages, creating an unusual dynamic between aggression and vulnerability.

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