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Derby, New York NWOTHM project. Yet another Abraxas — the Gnostic deity's popularity among metalheads proves the name's enduring power.
Abrupt delivers grindcore and brutal death metal from Lyon since 2019. Their name mirrors their musical approach: sudden, violent, and without preamble, from France's gastronomic capital.
Abruptum has operated from Stockholm in various forms, known for their uniquely chaotic blend of black metal, noise, and power electronics. Originally formed in the early 1990s with members connected to the Swedish black metal underground, their extreme, formless approach to sonic violence earned them IT's (Euronymous's) description as 'the audial essence of pure black evil.'
Abscendent has delivered thrash and death metal from Fondi in the Latina province of Lazio since 2016. Situated between Rome and Naples on the ancient Via Appia, they channel the aggressive energy of southern Lazio through technical riffing.
A death metal band from Barão Geraldo — a district of Campinas, São Paulo state — formed in 1994 by brothers Glauco Silva and Caio Cezar. They released the demo "Pestilent Emanation" in 1994 and appeared on the compilation "Death Or Glory Vol. 1" in 1995 before eventually splitting up.
Abscession delivers death metal from Linköping in Östergötland since 2010. Their medical name — the formation of an abscess — drives fifteen years of infected, festering death metal from this eastern Swedish university city.
Abscission is a blackened death metal band from Roskilde, Denmark, formed in 2023, fusing the atmospheric hostility of black metal with death metal's guttural ferocity. The band operates from the historic Viking-era city west of Copenhagen.
A short-lived death metal band from Carapicuíba, a municipality in Greater São Paulo, formed and dissolved around 2020. With minimal recorded output and little web presence, the band was part of the dense underground death metal activity in the São Paulo metropolitan area before going inactive.
Absence Betrayal channels melodic black and death metal from Irkutsk in eastern Siberia since 2018. From the gateway city to Lake Baikal — the world's deepest lake — they craft melodic extremity shaped by the vast Siberian landscape.
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