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San Diego crossover thrash and metalcore project built entirely around Arnold Schwarzenegger impressions and movie quotes. Their 2008 debut Total Brutal is exactly what it sounds like — tongue-in-cheek thrash with Austrian accent vocal deliveries that transforms action movie one-liners into metal anthems.
Autarkia is a melodic thrash and death metal band from Leipzig, Germany, formed in 2016, whose name references the concept of self-sufficiency, reflecting an independent, DIY approach to extreme metal. The band combines thrash speed with melodic death metal's harmonic sensibility from Saxony's cultural capital.
Anaheim, California metalcore and thrash act with two EPs since 2021. You Will One Day Be Thought of for the Last Time delivers existential dread through aggressive riffing, the mortality-obsessed title lending unexpected depth to Orange County metal.
Autoagresija delivers crossover and thrash metal from Čačak in western Serbia since 2017. Their Serbian name meaning 'self-aggression' captures the self-destructive energy of their punk-influenced thrash.
San Diego thrash band exploding with speed metal fury from Southern California, delivering high-octane aggression from America's Finest City.
Georgetown, Kentucky thrash band from the Bluegrass State, channeling military-grade firepower metaphors into aggressive speed metal from the heart of horse country.
Autonomie delivers thrash metal, crossover, and hardcore from Hundvåg island in Stavanger since 2023. Their self-governance name suits the DIY spirit of punk-inflected thrash from this island suburb of Norway's energy capital.
Autopsia is a death and thrash metal band from Seligenstadt in Hesse, Germany, with roots stretching back to 1989, making them one of the oldest surviving acts in the German death-thrash underground. With over three decades of activity, the band predates many of the genre's conventions and has witnessed its entire evolution firsthand.
Autopsia is a thrash metal band from Pindamonhangaba, São Paulo state, Brazil, one of the country's long-running underground acts with roots stretching back to 1989. Having persisted through more than three decades in the Brazilian extreme underground, they represent the tenacious provincial thrash metal scene that developed outside the major centers of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
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