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Absolute Violence delivers death metal, deathcore, and groove metal from the Greater Manchester town of Wigan since 2018, their name promising the uncompromising brutality their sound delivers. Their Lancashire origins feed a blue-collar intensity.
Abyssal Born merges death metal, deathcore, and melodic death metal from Cambridge since 2023, creating a modern extreme sound from one of England's most academic cities. Their deep-sea name contrasts with the dreaming spires of their university-town origins.
Abysser is a deathcore band from Malaga, Spain, formed in 2023, delivering the genre's punishing combination of death metal brutality and hardcore breakdowns from the Andalusian coast. The band contributes to the growing deathcore presence in southern Spain.
Acheode has undergone a significant evolution from melodic death metal and metalcore beginnings to technical death metal and deathcore, operating from Verona since 2012. Their stylistic journey reflects the restless creative energy of the Veneto metal underground.
Acrania has been delivering brutal death metal and deathcore from London since 2007, earning a reputation as one of the UK's most punishing extreme acts. Nearly two decades of skull-crushing brutality reflect the relentless intensity of the English capital's heaviest underground.
Acranius are a slamming death metal institution from Rostock, Germany, whose brutal catalog spans eight releases including Reign of Terror, Mercy Denied, and the 2024 album Whiteout. Since their formation, they have become one of the most recognized names in the European slam death metal scene, delivering guttural punishment with an intensity that has built them a global following.
Addiction of a Murderer are a deathcore band from Kulmbach, Germany, whose 2010 debut Dancing Death EP delivers five tracks of breakdowns and guttural fury across eighteen concise minutes. Emerging from Upper Franconia, the band bring the genre's signature brutality to a region better known for its breweries than its extreme music.
Afflicted Creation delivers deathcore from Oslo since 2014. Their plague-forged name drives compositions of breakdown-heavy aggression from the Norwegian capital.
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.
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