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Accidental Death Benefit delivers brutal death metal and grindcore from Bratsk in eastern Siberia since 2017. From this remote Irkutsk Region industrial city on the Angara River, they bring insurance-terminology irony to extreme metal.
Acroholia delivers death metal and grindcore from Belgrade since 1992, over three decades of extremity making them one of Serbia's longest-running extreme metal acts. Their drunken-heights name has guided generations of grinding brutality from the Serbian capital.
Actvs Mortis is a death metal and grindcore band from Santa Cruz de Mieres in Asturias, Spain, formed in February 2019, featuring Txeffy on vocals, Diego and David on guitars, Carmelo on bass, and Remis on drums. Their catalog spans from early demos through the 2021 album Sempiternvs Terror to a 2023 three-way split with Anal Pus and Serrucho, blending death metal, grindcore, and groove elements.
Adronniy Nikolay delivers death metal and grindcore from an undisclosed Russian location since 2023. Their personal-name identity lends an intimate, diary-like quality to their extreme metal output.
Affront delivers grindcore from Hajnówka in the Podlasie region near the Białowieża Forest since 2019. From this town at the edge of Europe's last primeval forest, they bring primal fury through blastbeat-driven extremity.
Afgrund has delivered death metal, grindcore, and punk from Stockholm since 2009. Named after the Swedish word for 'abyss,' over fifteen years of bottom-feeding extremity have established them in the capital's underground.
Afstumpet is a death metal and grindcore band from Copenhagen, Denmark, formed in 2024, whose Danish name meaning 'blunted' or 'desensitized' captures the numb brutality of their extreme metal crossover. The band brings the ferocity of grindcore's blast beats together with death metal's guttural intensity from the Danish capital.
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.
Aftermath Massacre has ground out grindcore from Macerata in the Marche hills since 2024, bringing blastbeat fury to a province better known for opera and Renaissance art. Their unsubtle name captures the pure devastation of their short, sharp compositions.
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