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Absum weaves funeral doom, black metal, and drone from the Lombard city of Lodi since 2011. Their Latin name meaning 'I am absent' perfectly captures the dissociative, trance-like state their glacial compositions induce.
Absurd are a thrash metal band from Maaseik in Belgian Limburg, whose Bandcamp presence documents a project committed to the genre's most uncompromising, 80s-rooted tradition. Rooted in the riff-first aggression of classic European thrash, their material channels the same raw energy that defined the early Teutonic and Bay Area movements into their own distinctly underground Belgian idiom.
Absurdeity delivers death metal from Örebro since 2023. Their portmanteau of absurdity and deity suggests the ridiculous divinity of their Närke-born death metal.
Absurdity Made Flesh delivers melodic death metal from Tampere since 2021, exploring the genre's balance between aggression and harmony. Their philosophical name hints at a band grappling with existential themes through extreme music.
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.
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