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Absurdium is a death metal band from Americana, São Paulo, Brazil, with roots going back to 2002 through predecessor projects including Healer and Divine Putrefaction. The band released their album 'Man-Made Horrors Beyond Comprehension' in January 2025, a 10-track, 32-minute record channeling old-school death metal aggression with socially critical lyrical themes.
Absurdoom creates depressive black metal from Niš in southern Serbia since 2012. Their portmanteau — absurdity meets doom — captures the existential bleakness of their sound from this historic city once known as Constantine's birthplace.
Absurdum crafts melodic death metal from Staffanstorp in Skåne since 2008. Nearly two decades from this southern Swedish town near Lund, they have refined their approach to the melodic death metal tradition that thrives in Scandinavia.
Absurdus crafts melodic death metal from the Veikkola and Kirkkonummi area near Helsinki since 2012. Their Latin name meaning 'absurd' carries an ironic weight given the carefully structured melodicism of their compositions.
Absurd² explores progressive and technical thrash metal from Oslo since 2014. Their mathematically squared absurdity drives compositions of intensified chaos from the Norwegian capital.
A psychedelic doom/sludge quartet from Charleroi formed in 2015, self-described as a "doom infused cosmic quartet." Their catalog spans a self-titled EP (2017), demo Black Land (2019), and two full-lengths, Plèbe 2178 (2021) and Bicolor Tantra (2024), each pushing further into dense, cosmic-tinged heaviness.
Absynthe brings heavy metal from the French underground since 2019, their intoxicating name a nod to the legendary spirit that inspired artists and rebels alike. Their traditional metal approach channels that same spirit of creative defiance.
Formed in November 1996 in Hamont-Achel, Limburg by guitarist Peter Bloemen and bassist Kevin Schutters, Absynthium evolved over their active years into a modern death/thrash hybrid with a sound they described as distinctly their own. The band was active until 2008 and remained independent throughout their run.
Black metal duo from Switzerland, consisting of vocalist/lyricist Siech and multi-instrumentalist/songwriter Mengis, who released their debut EP "Disobedience and Pestilence" in November 2025. The four-track record was recorded at Eugen Studio and tagged with the Swiss-German descriptor "gruusig" (gruesome), reflecting an uncompromising lo-fi black metal aesthetic.
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