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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Abyzouth is a blackened death metal band from New York City. Their 2021 EP "Wrathbringer" delivers five tracks of venomous blackened death metal from the concrete underground.
Aborigen is a death, black metal, and grindcore band from Murcia, Spain, formed in 2022, fusing three of extreme metal's most aggressive subgenres into a relentless sonic assault. The band channels the intensity of the Mediterranean climate into their blistering crossover of extreme styles.
Abyfs is an experimental death metal and grindcore band from Segovia, Spain, formed in 2013, pushing the boundaries of extreme metal with their unconventional approach to the genre. The band brings avant-garde extremity to the historic Castilian city known for its Roman aqueduct.
Houston, Texas death metal project. The medical term for absence of the skull cap — cranial horror from Space City.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin black/death metal project named after the genus of death adders. Venomous extremity from Beer City.
Acatalepsy delivers death metal from Edinburgh since 2011, their philosophical name meaning the impossibility of true comprehension reflecting the incomprehensible brutality of their sound. Over a decade of activity makes them one of Scotland's established death metal acts.
Accidental Death Benefit delivers brutal death metal and grindcore from Bratsk in eastern Siberia since 2017. From this remote Irkutsk Region industrial city on the Angara River, they bring insurance-terminology irony to extreme metal.
Accursed Years merges black metal, death metal, folk metal, and melodic death metal from the Dorset coastal town of Weymouth since 2015. Their four-genre fusion creates an ambitiously diverse sound drawn from the English Channel coast.
Accurst merges death and thrash metal from Malmö as of 2025. Their archaic English for 'cursed' drives fresh compositions of dual-genre hostility from Sweden's third-largest city.
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