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A thrash and death metal band from Rio de Janeiro whose members come from the city's and Niterói's underground metal scene. Aiming to push beyond conventional song structures while keeping the music grounded rather than indulgently technical, the band released the EP "Ravishers of Innocence and Purity" to positive reception within Brazil's extreme metal community.
Absolute Terror Field takes its name from the defensive barriers in Neon Genesis Evangelion, delivering melodic death metal and metalcore from Rome since 2019. Their anime-inspired identity informs an approach that balances aggression with the dramatic, narrative-driven intensity of their source material.
Absolute Violence delivers death metal, deathcore, and groove metal from the Greater Manchester town of Wigan since 2018, their name promising the uncompromising brutality their sound delivers. Their Lancashire origins feed a blue-collar intensity.
Death metal band from Zürich, Switzerland, formed as an independent act that later changed their name to Aside AD. Their album "Once We Were Humans" was recorded at Retro Studio and stands as a core release in their discography, situated in straightforward, unadorned death metal.
Absolutism is a technical death metal and grindcore band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2022, featuring Will Bedonow on guitars, Emre Akan on vocals, Jesper Boenigk on drums, and Gaspar Del Valle on bass. Their releases Blasting Trilok I, Asynchronous, and the 2025 album Stream of Consciousness deliver sharp, fast, unorthodox, and violent tech death grind exploring themes of burnout and societal pressure.
Absolutus Amorphos explores progressive death metal from Kimry in the Tver Region since 2014. Their Latin-Greek hybrid name meaning 'absolute formlessness' drives over a decade of compositionally ambitious death metal from this Upper Volga town.
Absolvtion operates at the intersection of black and death metal from Nantes since 2016, bringing extreme fury to Brittany's largest city. Their deliberately archaic spelling adds a ceremonial weight to their name.
Death/thrash metal band from Aigle, Switzerland, active in the underground metal scene of the French-speaking Canton of Vaud. Their material places them in the tradition of technically driven death-thrash, blending aggression with intricate guitar work rooted in the Swiss extreme metal underground.
Based in Passau, Germany, Abstractyss have been creating death metal since 2014, channeling the genre's primal aggression from the banks of the Danube where Bavaria meets Austria. Their name hints at the abyssal depths they seek to explore through their music.
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