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Absolution brings heavy and thrash metal from the Potteries city of Stoke-on-Trent since 2013, channeling the Staffordshire industrial heartland's blue-collar grit into aggressive metal. Over a decade of activity speaks to deep roots in the Midlands scene.
Death metal band from Zürich, Switzerland, formed as an independent act that later changed their name to Aside AD. Their album "Once We Were Humans" was recorded at Retro Studio and stands as a core release in their discography, situated in straightforward, unadorned death metal.
Absolutism is a technical death metal and grindcore band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2022, featuring Will Bedonow on guitars, Emre Akan on vocals, Jesper Boenigk on drums, and Gaspar Del Valle on bass. Their releases Blasting Trilok I, Asynchronous, and the 2025 album Stream of Consciousness deliver sharp, fast, unorthodox, and violent tech death grind exploring themes of burnout and societal pressure.
Absoluto Poder was a death/thrash metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2013 by members Mike Dorsal and Rafael Tortuguita, drawing influence from Sodom, Dorsal Atlântica, and old-school Sepultura. The band blended the aggression of Brazilian thrash with death metal heaviness in the vein of early Death and Autopsy, releasing a demo titled 'When Your Nightmares Come True' in 2015 and working toward a full-length before splitting up.
Absolutus Amorphos explores progressive death metal from Kimry in the Tver Region since 2014. Their Latin-Greek hybrid name meaning 'absolute formlessness' drives over a decade of compositionally ambitious death metal from this Upper Volga town.
Absolver is a blackened sludge and noise metal band from the Fort Lauderdale and Miami area of Florida. Between 2017 and 2019, the band released three EPs of caustic, abrasive heaviness, blending sludge metal's crushing low end with walls of blackened noise.
Absolvtion operates at the intersection of black and death metal from Nantes since 2016, bringing extreme fury to Brittany's largest city. Their deliberately archaic spelling adds a ceremonial weight to their name.
Absonant has been a fixture of Kotka's black metal underground since 1995, making them one of the longer-running projects in the Kymenlaakso region. Their three decades of activity speak to an unwavering commitment to black metal from Finland's southeastern coast.
Death/thrash metal band from Aigle, Switzerland, active in the underground metal scene of the French-speaking Canton of Vaud. Their material places them in the tradition of technically driven death-thrash, blending aggression with intricate guitar work rooted in the Swiss extreme metal underground.
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