After Nine Comes Forty has evolved from deathcore into death metal from Yekaterinburg since 2022. Their mathematically absurd name brings surreal humor to the Ural city's growing extreme metal community.

After Oblivion are a technical death/thrash band from Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, whose music sits at the complex, precise end of the death metal spectrum. Their approach combines the angular riffing of technical death metal with the velocity and aggression of old-school thrash, producing material that is both rhythmically intricate and physically demanding.

After the Abduction merges death and progressive metal from Manchester since 2016, their alien-encounter name hinting at the otherworldly dimensions their compositions explore. Their approach brings both brutality and cerebral complexity to the northern English metal scene.

After the Last Sky fuses death metal, grindcore, and metalcore from Stoke-on-Trent since 2011, creating a volatile triple-genre hybrid from the Potteries. Over a decade of extreme crossover speaks to the Staffordshire underground's vitality.

After the Plague creates death metal from Savona on the Ligurian coast since 2014. Their pestilential name evokes medieval devastation, which they translate into modern musical destruction from this Riviera port city.

After Tomorrow are a melodic death metal band from Kirchbichl in Tyrol, self-releasing their material on Bandcamp. The band draws on the Gothenburg-influenced sound of melodic death metal, blending aggressive riffing with melodic guitar leads in the European extreme metal tradition.

Afterbleeding delivers technical brutal death metal from Porto since 2020. Their post-hemorrhagic name captures the aftermath of violence that their surgically precise compositions explore from northern Portugal.

Athens' Afterblood combine death and thrash metal into a relentless barrage of technical riffing and percussive fury. Since 2013, they've maintained an uncompromising approach to extreme metal that draws equally from both genres.

Afterburner creates death metal from Irkutsk in eastern Siberia since 2012. Named after the jet-engine afterburning technique, they deliver over a decade of high-thrust brutality from the shores of Lake Baikal.