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After the Last Sky fuses death metal, grindcore, and metalcore from Stoke-on-Trent since 2011, creating a volatile triple-genre hybrid from the Potteries. Over a decade of extreme crossover speaks to the Staffordshire underground's vitality.
After the Plague creates death metal from Savona on the Ligurian coast since 2014. Their pestilential name evokes medieval devastation, which they translate into modern musical destruction from this Riviera port city.
After This Day is a death metal band from Denver, Colorado. Their 2023 full-length "Smoke Fire Mayhem" delivers eight tracks of aggressive death metal from the Mile High City.
After Tomorrow are a melodic death metal band from Kirchbichl in Tyrol, self-releasing their material on Bandcamp. The band draws on the Gothenburg-influenced sound of melodic death metal, blending aggressive riffing with melodic guitar leads in the European extreme metal tradition.
Afterbirth is a progressive brutal death metal band from Long Island, New York. Active since the early 2010s, the band has built a cult following with releases like "Brutal Inception" and the 2023 full-length "In But Not Of," pushing brutal death metal into genuinely progressive territory with complex structures and unpredictable songwriting.
Afterbleed Splatter is a black/death metal band from João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil, active since 2022 and operating in the extreme underground. The band has appeared on multiple compilations including "The Sound of Satanic Hellbangers" Volumes I and II (2022) and "Metal Against Nazifascism" (2023), establishing a presence in the Brazilian extreme metal tape-trading and compilation circuit.
Afterbleeding delivers technical brutal death metal from Porto since 2020. Their post-hemorrhagic name captures the aftermath of violence that their surgically precise compositions explore from northern Portugal.
Athens' Afterblood combine death and thrash metal into a relentless barrage of technical riffing and percussive fury. Since 2013, they've maintained an uncompromising approach to extreme metal that draws equally from both genres.
Afterburner creates death metal from Irkutsk in eastern Siberia since 2012. Named after the jet-engine afterburning technique, they deliver over a decade of high-thrust brutality from the shores of Lake Baikal.
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