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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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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.
Warwick, Rhode Island death metal project with four releases since 2012. Promises of Continued and Endless Contempt and a split with Doom Town establish them as a fixture in New England's extreme underground.
Thessaloniki's Autophagia were a legendary one-man goregrind project active from 1997 to 2006, adhering to the old Carcass and Dead Infection school of grinding extremity with pitch-shifted vocals, explicit artwork, and chaotic song structures. Their complete recordings were compiled into the retrospective 'Spastic Grinding Gore Mayhem' in 2022, preserving the legacy of one of Greece's most prolific extreme acts.
Autophagie crafts atmospheric black metal from Ryazan as of 2025. Their French spelling of 'autophagy' — the cellular self-consumption process — drives compositions of atmospheric self-dissolution from this ancient city on the Oka River.
Autophagocytosis creates depressive black metal from an undisclosed Moldovan location since 2024. Named after the cellular process of self-digestion, their sound enacts a similar dissolution — consuming itself through anguished extremity.
Portland death metal project whose 2018 demo captures raw, self-consuming extremity. Named after the cellular process of eating oneself — the body recycling its own components — a fitting metaphor for death metal's obsession with dissolution.
A four-piece death metal and grindcore band from Přerov, Autophobic have released albums including Tinnitus and Prdel Světa as well as a full-length death metal/grindcore record titled RARE DEMA. Their lineup of Roman Krejčí, David Šumský, Stanislav Halda, and Jan Landsinger delivers the blasting, uncompromising extremity characteristic of Czech grind.
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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