A Hanging is a hardcore punk and thrash metal band from New Orleans, Louisiana, active since 2015 with five releases. The band plays short, violent bursts of crossover aggression rooted in both punk fury and thrash precision. Named after the George Orwell essay, their music carries a grim, politically charged undercurrent fitting for a band born in post-Katrina New Orleans.

A Haunted Mantra is a melodic death metal project from Charlotte, North Carolina, releasing the single-track "Across the Blackened Sky" in 2011. The project merges the twin-guitar harmonies and sweep-picked melodies of Scandinavian melodic death metal with American heaviness. Though limited in output, the project represents Charlotte's contribution to the melodeath tradition.

A Hill to Die Upon is a death metal band from the Monmouth/Galesburg area of Illinois, active since 2009 with three releases spanning 30 tracks. The band plays epic, ambitious death metal with literary and mythological themes, as evidenced by tracks like "Prometheus Rebound" and "Of Fire And Division." Their substantial catalog reflects a band committed to expanding the intellectual scope of extreme metal.

Florida black metal project. The name captures the genre's essential despair — crying out into a void that offers no comfort.

San Jose, California death metal project. The unsettling name suggests something inhuman wearing flesh as disguise — body horror from Silicon Valley.

A Karmic Gray is a metalcore act from Frazeysburg, Ohio, with four releases totaling 22 tracks since their emergence. The band incorporates guest features and genre-blending elements into their metalcore foundation, pointing toward a modern, collaborative approach. Their prolific output from a small rural Ohio town speaks to the democratization of extreme music production.

A la Carte is a death metal band from Lima, Ohio, serving up gore-themed brutality with a culinary twist since 2020. Track titles like "Soup Dejour," "Aborted Eggs Benedict," and "Hymen Drizzled Hotcakes" combine food service vocabulary with graphic anatomical horror. Across two releases and 15 tracks, the band has carved out a uniquely nauseating niche in Ohio's death metal scene.

A Lapse of Ethos is a deathcore project from Phoenix, Arizona, with a single release to their name. Details remain sparse, but the project name — suggesting a breakdown of moral principles — aligns with the genre's thematic preoccupations with societal decay and personal collapse. The band adds to the growing extreme metal presence in the Phoenix desert scene.

New York City metalcore and thrash project named after the Exodus classic. Manhattan aggression paying tribute to Bay Area thrash royalty.