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Long-running Texas extreme metal from Amarillo founded by Ramon Cazares. Blends death metal with black metal, thrash, groove, and grind.
Abolition Ritual combines death and doom metal from Rome since 2021, their ceremonial name evoking the systematic dismantling of structures — spiritual, physical, or otherwise. Their dual-genre approach brings both crushing weight and methodical aggression to the Roman underground.
Hungarian death metal project Abolizion emerged in 2021 with crushing brutality built on guttural vocals and pummelling riffs. Their phonetic spelling of 'abolition' hints at a desire to dismantle and destroy through sonic violence.
Abomation thrashes from Grängesberg in Dalarna since 2020. From this former mining town in Sweden's Bergslagen region, they channel industrial-era aggression through high-speed riffing.
Abominable Filth channels death metal from Kingston upon Hull since 2020, their gleefully repulsive name leaving no ambiguity about their sonic intentions. Their Humberside origins feed a sound as uncompromising as the North Sea winters.
Abominable Putridity has become one of Russia's most internationally recognized slam and brutal death metal acts, originally from Moscow and still operating from there since around 2006. Their grotesque name matches the guttural, bone-crushing brutality that has earned them a devoted global following in the slam death community.
Abominador is a thrash/black metal band from Santa Mariana, Paraná, formed at the end of 2009 with the explicit aim of making raw, stripped-down extreme metal entirely in Portuguese. Drawing from the Brazilian bestial black/thrash tradition, the project released a demo in 2010 and has continued operating in the underground since, favoring aggression and directness over production polish.
Abominate is a black and death metal band from Pennsylvania. Active since 2011, the band has released an EP and a full-length, with 2020's "A rotten mind becomes violent" delivering eleven tracks of blackened death metal hostility.
Abominated is a Spanish death and thrash metal band formed in 2021, combining death metal's guttural extremity with thrash's relentless speed. The band represents the newer wave of extreme metal crossover in the Spanish underground.
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