Absent Fear creates death metal from Sandviken in Gästrikland as of 2025. Their paradoxical name — fear that is not present — suggests a fearlessness channeled through death metal's confrontational vocabulary.

Absent in Body is a Belgian post-metal supergroup formed in 2017 by Amenra guitarist Mathieu Vandekerckhove and vocalist Colin H. van Eeckhout alongside Neurosis vocalist Scott Kelly and former Sepultura drummer Iggor Cavalera. Their debut album Plague God, released in 2022 on Season of Mist, melds post-metal, drone, sludge, and EBM into five sprawling compositions that draw on each member's history in confrontational, ceremony-driven heavy music. The project is deliberately collaborative and sparse, functioning as a slow-moving, ritualistic extension of the members' respective primary bands.

A doom and sludge metal band from Bamberg, Germany, Absent/Minded have been crafting dense, slow-burning heaviness since 2015. Their sound merges the crushing weight of sludge with the mournful deliberation of doom, reflecting the Franconian city's quiet intensity.

Absenta is a death and thrash metal crossover band from Torrelavega in Cantabria, Spain, formed in 2010, whose self-described 'post black n roll metal' blends post-black metal with death, thrash, and heavy metal influences. Their albums Under the Sight of Mulhacen and the 2016 follow-up Eel, recorded with producer Manuel Martinez of Estirpe at Mart Estudios and released through Necromance Records, deliver atmospheric yet aggressive compositions.

Absenth has navigated from melodic death and doom metal through industrial gothic to melodic metalcore from Voronezh since 2005. Two decades of stylistic reinvention from this Black Earth Region city speak to relentless creative restlessness.

Abside crafts progressive heavy and gothic metal from Conversano near Bari in Puglia since 2016. Their name, referencing the apse of a church, speaks to the architectural ambition of their compositions — sweeping, structured, and suffused with dark reverence.

A death metal band split between Stuttgart and Karlsruhe, Absidia formed in 2020 and bring together musicians from two of Baden-Württemberg's major cities. Their approach to death metal reflects the collaborative energy of southwest Germany's growing extreme metal community.

Absinth thrashes from Bornheim near Bonn since 2016, named after the legendary green liquor that fueled bohemian artists and inspired hallucinations. Their Rhineland thrash carries the intoxicated abandon their absinthe namesake promises.

Absinthe channels death and thrash metal from the Île-de-France town of Limay since 2017, named after the notorious green spirit that fueled so much Parisian art. Their intoxicating name suits a sound that hits with hallucinatory intensity.