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.

London's Axis of Evil combine death metal, industrial metal, and thrash into a mechanised assault of precision riffing and programmed aggression. Since 2018, their dystopian sound has channelled the paranoia and hostility of modern urban existence.

Axit is a death metal band from Karlsruhe, Germany, formed in 2013, contributing to the Baden extreme metal underground with their relentless approach to the genre. The band channels death metal's unforgiving aggression from the gateway city to the Black Forest.

Axolotl creates melodic death metal from Gelsenkirchen in the Ruhr Valley since 2020. Named after the perpetually juvenile Mexican salamander, their choice of this regenerative amphibian as mascot suggests renewal through the destructive medium of death metal.

Axsaena channels death and thrash metal from Toplița in Harghita County since 2013. From this small Transylvanian mountain town surrounded by dense forests, they deliver over a decade of dual-genre aggression.

Ayahuasca is a progressive death metal and deathcore band from Cologne, Germany, formed in 2013, named after the psychoactive Amazonian brew used in shamanic rituals. The band channels altered states and expansive consciousness into their blend of technical progressive death metal and deathcore aggression.

Aydra has delivered technical death metal from Ancona on the Adriatic coast of the Marche since 1996, making them one of Italy's longest-running technical death metal acts. Three decades of activity from this port city have produced a substantial body of technically demanding work.

Ayn creates melodic death metal from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on Sakhalin Island since 2017. Named after the Hebrew letter, they bring melodic sophistication to extreme metal from Russia's most easterly island outpost.

Aynsophar has practiced death metal from Debrecen since 2010, taking their name from the Kabbalistic concept of the infinite divine light. This mystical underpinning informs a death metal approach that reaches beyond pure brutality into more contemplative extremity.