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Bordeaux, FR · 2023–present · active
Abhorrent Execration delivers death metal from Bordeaux since 2023, adding fresh brutality to the Gironde capital's growing extreme metal community. Their name promises exactly the kind of revulsion and violence their sound delivers.
Poznań, PL · 2016–present · active
Abhorrent Funeral merges death and doom metal with punk from Poznań since 2016. Their funeral-horror name drives compositions that combine extreme metal's weight with punk's raw directness from western Poland's major city.
Oulu, FI · 2012–present · active
Abhorrent Ritual merges melodic death and groove metal with metalcore from Oulu since 2012. From Finland's northernmost major city near the Arctic Circle, they blend multiple aggressive styles into a cohesive assault.
Scotland, GB · 2025–present · active
Abhorvm fuses black and death metal from Scotland since 2025, their deliberately archaic spelling adding ancient weight to their modern extremity. The project represents the newest generation of Scottish extreme metal.
Podgorica, ME · 2017–present · active
Abhoth creates atmospheric death metal from Podgorica, the Montenegrin capital, since 2017. Named after the Lovecraftian entity 'Source of Uncleanliness,' they channel cosmic horror from the Balkans into suffocating, atmosphere-laden death metal.
Florence, IT · 2020–present · active
Abigeatum creates death and doom metal from Florence since 2020, their Latin name referring to cattle theft — a crime taken seriously enough in Roman law to warrant its own legal category. From the cradle of the Renaissance, they craft music of patient, crushing deliberation.
Lucerne, CH · 2009–present · active
Folk metal band from Luzern, Switzerland, who released five albums between 2009 and 2018—including "Hörensagen," "Versteckte Pfade," "Handgeschrieben," "Wegweiser," and "Weltenwanderer"—before going inactive. Their music incorporated German-language lyrics and Central European folk elements into a melodic metal framework.
Barcelona, ES · 2020–present · active
Abisme is a death and black metal band from Barcelona, Spain, with roots in 2017 and Swedish death metal influences, whose debut album As Fear Falls In delivers six tracks of blackened death metal serving as a voice against patriarchal consumer society. The band was founded by Joan, Anna, Uri, and Manel, with artwork created by Anna and the album self-produced and mixed by Joan.
Cagliari, IT · 2021–present · active
Abiura has practiced death metal from Cagliari since 2021, adding to Sardinia's growing extreme metal community. Their name, Italian for 'abjuration' or 'recantation,' speaks to a rejection of orthodoxy that their brutal approach embodies.

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