Artificial Pathogen delivers brutal death metal and deathcore from Glasgow since 2015, their lab-created-disease name reflecting the engineered brutality of their compositions. Over a decade of Scottish extremity speaks to sustained commitment.

Asbestosis delivers brutal death metal from Manchester since 2025, named after the deadly lung disease caused by asbestos exposure. Their industrial-disease name feeds compositions as suffocating and lethal as the condition itself.

With a name that reads like a medical textbook entry from another dimension, Assimilated Transdimensionalization delivers brutal death metal from Budapest as of 2025. Their commitment to absurdly lengthy nomenclature is matched by their commitment to grinding, guttural extremity.

Asura is a slam and deathcore band from Sofia, Bulgaria, blending brutal death metal weight with deathcore breakdowns. The band features members Georgi Kapashikov, Nikolay Petrov, Vladimir Kichkov, and Mope and has released material through their Bandcamp page as an independent act.

Asylum Creation delivers brutal death metal from the small Ain village of Culoz since 2012, proving that devastating extremity can emerge from France's most pastoral settings. Over a decade of brutality from the Rhône corridor speaks to sustained commitment.

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.

Avtotheism has evolved from brutal to technical death metal from Brescia since 2017. Their name — suggesting self-deification — drives music of relentless technical precision from this Lombard industrial city.

Axiomatic Dematerialization delivers slam and brutal death metal from Moscow since 2022. Their philosophically verbose name — suggesting the self-evident dissolution of matter — adds intellectual pretension to their guttural, pit-ready brutality.