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Abominated is a Spanish death and thrash metal band formed in 2021, combining death metal's guttural extremity with thrash's relentless speed. The band represents the newer wave of extreme metal crossover in the Spanish underground.
Abomination channels death metal from the industrial town of Mänttä since 2015, adding to Finland's seemingly bottomless well of extreme metal talent. Their straightforward name matches their uncompromising approach to brutality.
Death metal project of unknown origin. The Latinized name's putrid promise delivers exactly what death metal demands.
Abominations are an old-school death metal band from Bremen, Germany, whose Lovecraft-tinged horror themes permeate releases like Summoning Death and the 2021 compilation Realms of Horror, which collects their remastered demos. Their eight-track catalog channels the classic sound of early death metal with relentless energy and dark literary inspiration.
Minnesota death metal project. The name leaves no room for subtlety — total annihilation from the Land of 10,000 Lakes.
Philadelphia death metal project. The name elevates abomination to an ideology — a philosophy of revulsion from the City of Brotherly Love.
Aboriscor merges death metal, melodic death metal, and metalcore from the Breton port of Brest since 2012. Their sound channels Brittany's maritime intensity through a modern extreme metal lens.
Abort to Be Born creates death metal from Bratislava since 2016. Their paradoxical name — cancellation as a precondition for existence — drives compositions of philosophical brutality from the Slovak capital.
Aborted are one of Belgium's most internationally recognised death metal exports, formed in Beveren in 1995 and active across more than a dozen albums including Goremageddon (2003), The Archaic Abattoir (2005), and Global Flatline (2012). Their sound is a relentless, technically proficient surgical death metal attack — brutally fast, clinically precise, and unsparing in its gore-inflected lyrical obsessions, placing them alongside Dying Fetus and Cattle Decapitation in the upper tier of modern death metal.
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