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With a name that reads like a medical textbook entry from another dimension, Assimilated Transdimensionalization delivers brutal death metal from Budapest as of 2025. Their commitment to absurdly lengthy nomenclature is matched by their commitment to grinding, guttural extremity.
Portland, Maine death metal project whose 2020 releases — DELETED SCENES and Original Motion Picture Soundtrack — treat the genre through a cinematic lens. Film-obsessed death metal from New England's hippest small city.
Assorted Nails is a death metal band from Freiburg, Germany, established in 2001, self-described as representing the second wave of death metal with a diversified, idiosyncratic twist on the genre. Their releases, including War Death Destruction and Chocolate, the Kana Rengashaarniskassa EP, and Zoophisticated, are released under Creative Commons licensing, reflecting an unconventional approach to both their music and its distribution.
Assot delivers death metal from the Catalan town of Breda, deep in the Selva comarca's forested landscape, since 2012. Their sound draws from the isolation of rural Catalonia to create punishing extreme metal.
Assumption has crafted doom and death metal from Palermo since 2012, over a decade of crushing heaviness from the Sicilian capital. Their religious name — evoking ascension to heaven — creates an ironic counterpoint to their earthbound, weight-of-the-world sound.
Assur is a one-man grindcore and death metal project from Brasschaat, Antwerp, Belgium, formed in 2004. The project has appeared on the Deathmetal.be sampler series, including the track "Morphogenetic Stomache Medley" on the Face Your Underground 6 compilation via Rotten to the Core Agency.
Astagaad creates blackened death metal from Gävle since 2022. Their invented name drives compositions of combined extremity from this northern Swedish port city.
Tampa death metal project named after the Great Duke of Hell. Three releases since 2020 including In Reverence To The Machine God blend occult and technological horror from the birthplace of Florida death metal.
Asterean is a melodic black/death metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, that traces its roots to 2011 through a predecessor project called Espera XIII before formalizing under the current name around 2020. The four-piece — featuring Renan Brito on guitars, vocals, and keyboards alongside Fernando Henrique Ribeiro on drums — released their debut full-length Cosmorama in July 2022, a 33-minute record blending nature-themed black metal atmospherics with crushing riffs and cosmic imagery, followed by the Sovereign EP in 2024.
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