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Aberrazione channels thrash and death metal from San Donà di Piave in the Venice metropolitan area since 2021. Their Italian name meaning 'aberration' captures the deviant energy they bring from the Veneto flatlands.
Abesforia creates atmospheric doom and death metal from Ryazan southeast of Moscow since 2013. From this ancient Russian city on the Oka River, they craft compositions of vast, melancholic weight.
Abettor channels death and doom metal from Novocheboksarsk in the Chuvash Republic since 2016. Their accomplice-indicating name drives compositions of complicit heaviness from this Volga River industrial city.
Abeyance has practiced melodic death metal from Milan since 2019, their name — meaning a state of suspension — reflecting the tension between aggression and melody in their compositions. They contribute to Lombardy's robust melodic extreme metal tradition.
Abezi Thibod is a melodic black and death metal band from Santander, Spain, formed in late 2018 by Alvaro on drums and guitar, Adrian B. on guitar and vocals, and Manuel on recorder. Their 2021 debut Interdimensional Warrior Rejoicing blends experimental riffs across multiple metal styles with themes of human consciousness and spiritual struggle.
Abhaya are a thrash and death metal band from Dresden, Germany, whose self-titled 2015 debut album packs twelve tracks of intense, aggressive metal across forty-five minutes. With song titles like War is Now and Eternal Shitstorm, the band wear their unfiltered hostility on their sleeve, drawing comparisons to thrash legends Sodom and Coroner.
Abhordium has been fusing black and death metal from the southwestern Finnish city of Salo since 2009, creating a corrosive blend of extreme metal's two darkest pillars. Their nearly two-decade run speaks to deep dedication within Finland's underground.
Abhorrent Cabaret are a goregrind and brutal death metal band from Prague, Czech Republic, formed in 2017 and signed to Bizarre Leprous Production. Their 2020 album "Stories of Undeniable Abhorrence" — featuring members with backgrounds in D.E.O.A.G. and Pisstolero — delivers bulldozing slow-slime goregrind built on a catalog of grotesque conceptual imagery.
Abhorrent Decimation delivers death metal from London since 2015, their name promising the thorough destruction they inflict through punishing compositions. The project contributes to the English capital's ever-expanding extreme metal landscape.
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