Abode creates melodic groove metal from Bergen as of 2025. Their domestic name — a place to dwell — provides unexpectedly comfortable framing for their heavy, rhythmically driven compositions from Norway's second city.

Aborted Jalapeno delivers death metal, groove metal, and stoner metal from Stourbridge in the West Midlands since 2021, their absurdist name bringing dark humor to their genre-crossing heaviness. Their Black Country origins feed a distinctly working-class approach to extreme metal.

Absolate delivers groove and thrash metal from Cherepovets in the Vologda Region since 2017. From this northern Russian steel-industry city, they forge rhythmically aggressive compositions with industrial-town toughness.

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.

Absolute Zero merges groove and heavy metal from the Scottish town of Livingston since 2016, their thermodynamic name referencing the coldest possible temperature. Their science-inspired name suits a sound that freezes everything in its path.

A four-piece groove and thrash metal band from Bochum, Germany, Abyss Factory features veterans of bands like Living Death, Blood Red Angel, and Critical Impact. Their 2025 debut Bloodstains was recorded at Rambardo Recordings in Essen, delivering fourteen minutes of self-described 'deep, down and dirty' metal that draws on decades of collective experience in the Ruhr Valley scene.

Accuracy are a groove and thrash metal band from Munich, Germany, formed in 2022, who deliver riff-heavy, rhythmically punishing metal from the heart of Bavaria. Their sound bridges the gap between thrash metal's velocity and groove metal's crushing low-end power.

Acouphen merges death metal, groove metal, and melodic death metal from Lyon since 2011, creating a multi-layered sound from France's gastronomic capital. Their name, referencing the French word for tinnitus, captures the ringing intensity that lingers after their sonic assault.

Split's Act of Denial deliver a potent fusion of death metal, groove metal, and melodic death metal from Croatia's second-largest city. Launched in 2024, they bring a multi-genre approach to extreme metal with polished production and technical proficiency.