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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Autopsium delivers thrash and death metal from Istanbul since 1989, over three decades of activity making them one of Turkey's earliest and longest-running extreme metal acts. Their forensic-examination name has guided pioneering work in the Turkish underground.
Oakland death metal legends and architects of the death-doom subgenre. Their Bandcamp catalog includes Dead as..., representing one chapter of a career that fundamentally shaped extreme music worldwide. Chris Reifert and company created the template for merging death metal's fury with doom's crushing pace.
Autopsy Malice delivers slam and brutal death metal from Kyshtym in the Chelyabinsk Region since 2018. From a city infamously associated with one of the worst nuclear disasters in Soviet history, they bring post-mortem brutality.
Autopsy Night creates brutal death metal from Arkhara in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast since 2012. From one of Russia's most remote settlements in the Far East near the Chinese border, they deliver over a decade of morgue-themed brutality.
Martinsburg, West Virginia grindcore project whose 2012 EP Precision Death delivers exactly calibrated blasts of fury from the Eastern Panhandle.
Autopsya thrashes from Loures in the Lisbon district since 2013. Their forensic-examination name drives a decade of anatomically precise thrash from this northern Lisbon suburb.
Portland death metal project named after the act of consuming one's own flesh. Three releases since 2019 including the full-length Dolor — Latin for 'pain' — channel the most disturbing corners of human psychology through grinding extremity.
Autrest is the atmospheric black metal solo project of Matheus Vidor from the mountainous region of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, founded in winter 2022. Drawing on nature-influenced acts like Saor, Caladan Brood, and Eldamar, the project incorporates field recordings of forests and mountains into its compositions; the debut album "Follow the Cold Path" (2023, Northern Silence Productions) earned widespread critical acclaim, with a follow-up "Burning Embers, Forgotten Wolves" cementing Autrest as one of Brazil's standout atmospheric black metal exports.
Autua Sagas delivers melodic death metal with metalcore elements from Hyvinkää north of Helsinki since 2020. Their name pairs the Finnish word for 'blessed' with 'sagas,' framing their melodic aggression as epic narratives of transcendence.
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