Thessaloniki's Autophagia were a legendary one-man goregrind project active from 1997 to 2006, adhering to the old Carcass and Dead Infection school of grinding extremity with pitch-shifted vocals, explicit artwork, and chaotic song structures. Their complete recordings were compiled into the retrospective 'Spastic Grinding Gore Mayhem' in 2022, preserving the legacy of one of Greece's most prolific extreme acts.

Autophagie crafts atmospheric black metal from Ryazan as of 2025. Their French spelling of 'autophagy' — the cellular self-consumption process — drives compositions of atmospheric self-dissolution from this ancient city on the Oka River.

Autophagocytosis creates depressive black metal from an undisclosed Moldovan location since 2024. Named after the cellular process of self-digestion, their sound enacts a similar dissolution — consuming itself through anguished extremity.

A four-piece death metal and grindcore band from Přerov, Autophobic have released albums including Tinnitus and Prdel Světa as well as a full-length death metal/grindcore record titled RARE DEMA. Their lineup of Roman Krejčí, David Šumský, Stanislav Halda, and Jan Landsinger delivers the blasting, uncompromising extremity characteristic of Czech grind.

Autopsia is a death and thrash metal band from Seligenstadt in Hesse, Germany, with roots stretching back to 1989, making them one of the oldest surviving acts in the German death-thrash underground. With over three decades of activity, the band predates many of the genre's conventions and has witnessed its entire evolution firsthand.

Autopsy Malice delivers slam and brutal death metal from Kyshtym in the Chelyabinsk Region since 2018. From a city infamously associated with one of the worst nuclear disasters in Soviet history, they bring post-mortem brutality.

Autopsy Night creates brutal death metal from Arkhara in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast since 2012. From one of Russia's most remote settlements in the Far East near the Chinese border, they deliver over a decade of morgue-themed brutality.

Autopsya thrashes from Loures in the Lisbon district since 2013. Their forensic-examination name drives a decade of anatomically precise thrash from this northern Lisbon suburb.

Autua Sagas delivers melodic death metal with metalcore elements from Hyvinkää north of Helsinki since 2020. Their name pairs the Finnish word for 'blessed' with 'sagas,' framing their melodic aggression as epic narratives of transcendence.