Aborcja thrashes from Rzeszów in southeastern Poland since 2022, their Polish name meaning 'abortion' carrying provocative political weight in a country where the topic remains fiercely contested. Their Subcarpathian thrash channels that controversy into aggressive energy.

Aboriscor merges death metal, melodic death metal, and metalcore from the Breton port of Brest since 2012. Their sound channels Brittany's maritime intensity through a modern extreme metal lens.

Abort to Be Born creates death metal from Bratislava since 2016. Their paradoxical name — cancellation as a precondition for existence — drives compositions of philosophical brutality from the Slovak capital.

Aborted are one of Belgium's most internationally recognised death metal exports, formed in Beveren in 1995 and active across more than a dozen albums including Goremageddon (2003), The Archaic Abattoir (2005), and Global Flatline (2012). Their sound is a relentless, technically proficient surgical death metal attack — brutally fast, clinically precise, and unsparing in its gore-inflected lyrical obsessions, placing them alongside Dying Fetus and Cattle Decapitation in the upper tier of modern death metal.

Aborted Earth has ground out punishing grindcore from Dublin since 2018, channeling ecological dread and societal collapse through blastbeats and microsecond-length song structures. Their name captures the apocalyptic fury that defines their brief but devastating compositions.

Aborted Fetus delivers brutal death metal from Perm in the Ural Mountains since 2010. Over fifteen years from this major Ural industrial city, they have produced a substantial body of unflinchingly graphic death metal.

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.

Abortion delivers death metal, crust, and grindcore from Nitra since 1997. Nearly three decades from this western Slovak city, they have produced one of the country's most enduring extreme metal legacies.

Aborym pioneered industrial black metal from Taranto before expanding into broader industrial metal and rock territory, remaining active since their 2006-era reformation. Known for featuring members with ties to prominent Italian and Norwegian black metal scenes, they represent one of Italy's most internationally recognized extreme industrial projects.