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Dover, Delaware death metal and metalcore project. The name's grim imagery channels the First State's small but determined metal underground.
Aborted Fetus delivers brutal death metal from Perm in the Ural Mountains since 2010. Over fifteen years from this major Ural industrial city, they have produced a substantial body of unflinchingly graphic death metal.
Aborted Jalapeno delivers death metal, groove metal, and stoner metal from Stourbridge in the West Midlands since 2021, their absurdist name bringing dark humor to their genre-crossing heaviness. Their Black Country origins feed a distinctly working-class approach to extreme metal.
Abortion delivers death metal, crust, and grindcore from Nitra since 1997. Nearly three decades from this western Slovak city, they have produced one of the country's most enduring extreme metal legacies.
Abortion Survivor is a death metal band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Their 2023 EP "The Laboratory: Chapter 2" delivers six tracks of unrelenting death metal from the City of Brotherly Love's underground.
A death metal and grindcore band from Brasília formed in 2017, operating in the tradition of Brazilian extreme metal with the short, brutal blasts characteristic of the grind style. Working out of the country's capital — less historically prominent in extreme metal than São Paulo or Belo Horizonte — the band contributes to a growing underground scene in the city.
Abrahamic Liars are an Antwerp-based extreme metal project driven by what they describe as "a dark mission of facing demons and ultimate annihilation," built on the foundation of a "mutual love for extreme escapism." Their releases — including Genesis and Requiem — are collaboratively constructed with a range of guest artists and inhabit a confrontational space where black metal aggression meets experimental, cathartic intent.
Abramelin is an Australian death metal band formed in Melbourne in 1988 under the name Acheron, changing their name in 1994 to avoid confusion with the American band of the same name. Pioneers of Australian death metal, they released two studio albums — Abramelin (1995) and Deadspeak (2000) — before disbanding in 2002, with members going on to Blood Duster, the Berzerker, and the Amenta. After reforming in 2016, the band issued Never Enough Snuff (2020) and Sins of the Father (2024), maintaining their blunt, old-school death metal approach.
A brutal death metal outfit from Stuttgart, Germany, Abrasive formed in 2020 and deliver crushing extremity rooted in the most punishing end of the death metal spectrum. The band represent Baden-Württemberg's growing contribution to Germany's brutal death metal underground.
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