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Afstumpet is a death metal and grindcore band from Copenhagen, Denmark, formed in 2024, whose Danish name meaning 'blunted' or 'desensitized' captures the numb brutality of their extreme metal crossover. The band brings the ferocity of grindcore's blast beats together with death metal's guttural intensity from the Danish capital.
After Death is a staggeringly prolific death metal project from Tampa, Florida. With fifteen releases in just three years (2022-2024), the project channels the city's legendary death metal legacy into a ceaseless torrent of material spanning multiple languages and thematic concepts, from Italian horror ("Quel Cimitero Accanto Alla Villa") to abstract self-destruction ("SELF//WOUND").
After Earth delivers melodic death metal from Skövde in Västergötland since 2012. Their post-apocalyptic name drives over a decade of compositions that imagine music after the world's end.
After Nine Comes Forty has evolved from deathcore into death metal from Yekaterinburg since 2022. Their mathematically absurd name brings surreal humor to the Ural city's growing extreme metal community.
After Oblivion are a technical death/thrash band from Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, whose music sits at the complex, precise end of the death metal spectrum. Their approach combines the angular riffing of technical death metal with the velocity and aggression of old-school thrash, producing material that is both rhythmically intricate and physically demanding.
After the Abduction merges death and progressive metal from Manchester since 2016, their alien-encounter name hinting at the otherworldly dimensions their compositions explore. Their approach brings both brutality and cerebral complexity to the northern English metal scene.
After the Last Sky fuses death metal, grindcore, and metalcore from Stoke-on-Trent since 2011, creating a volatile triple-genre hybrid from the Potteries. Over a decade of extreme crossover speaks to the Staffordshire underground's vitality.
After the Plague creates death metal from Savona on the Ligurian coast since 2014. Their pestilential name evokes medieval devastation, which they translate into modern musical destruction from this Riviera port city.
After This Day is a death metal band from Denver, Colorado. Their 2023 full-length "Smoke Fire Mayhem" delivers eight tracks of aggressive death metal from the Mile High City.
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