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Avtotheism has evolved from brutal to technical death metal from Brescia since 2017. Their name — suggesting self-deification — drives music of relentless technical precision from this Lombard industrial city.
Founded by the legendary Dave Rotten in 1991, Avulsed is one of Spain's most important death metal bands, with a discography spanning six full-lengths from "Eminence in Putrescence" to "Deathgeneration." Their three-decade run on labels like Repulse and Xtreem Music has made them a cornerstone of the Madrid extreme metal scene.
Nottinghamshire's Avulsion Rupture unleash a savage hybrid of black and death metal marked by clinical precision and visceral brutality. Active since 2014, their name alone telegraphs the uncompromising violence of their musical output.
Awaiting Fear delivers death metal from Belgrade since 2008. Nearly two decades of dread-anticipation from the Serbian capital have produced a substantial body of death metal that explores the terror of what approaches.
Awakeness creates melodic death metal from Jelenia Góra in the Karkonosze Mountains since 2022. From this Silesian mountain spa town, they craft melodic extremity beneath the Giant Mountains' peaks.
Awakening Sun merges melodic death, thrash, and groove metal with metalcore from Vilnius since 2011. Their dawn-focused name drives over a decade of aggressive yet melodic compositions that span four overlapping subgenres.
Midlands-based Awoke blend death metal brutality with grindcore velocity, creating short, explosive salvos of extreme metal fury. Since 2012, they've operated at the intersection of these two genres with a relentless, no-frills approach.
Awoken merges black and death metal from Chornomorsk near Odesa since 2021. Their awakening name drives compositions of renewed extremity from this Black Sea port town.
Founded in Havířov in 2011 by multi-instrumentalist Marek Frodys Pytlik, Awrizis are a one-man-driven hybrid metal project that weaves together melodic death, black metal, thrash, and groove into a cohesive sound. Their 2018 album Dreadful Reflection, released through MetalGate, drew praise for its balance of blast-beat aggression, polyrhythmic complexity, and melodic hooks.
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