Absurdeity delivers death metal from Örebro since 2023. Their portmanteau of absurdity and deity suggests the ridiculous divinity of their Närke-born death metal.

Absurdity Made Flesh delivers melodic death metal from Tampere since 2021, exploring the genre's balance between aggression and harmony. Their philosophical name hints at a band grappling with existential themes through extreme music.

Absurdoom creates depressive black metal from Niš in southern Serbia since 2012. Their portmanteau — absurdity meets doom — captures the existential bleakness of their sound from this historic city once known as Constantine's birthplace.

Absurdum crafts melodic death metal from Staffanstorp in Skåne since 2008. Nearly two decades from this southern Swedish town near Lund, they have refined their approach to the melodic death metal tradition that thrives in Scandinavia.

Absurdus crafts melodic death metal from the Veikkola and Kirkkonummi area near Helsinki since 2012. Their Latin name meaning 'absurd' carries an ironic weight given the carefully structured melodicism of their compositions.

Absurd² explores progressive and technical thrash metal from Oslo since 2014. Their mathematically squared absurdity drives compositions of intensified chaos from the Norwegian capital.

A psychedelic doom/sludge quartet from Charleroi formed in 2015, self-described as a "doom infused cosmic quartet." Their catalog spans a self-titled EP (2017), demo Black Land (2019), and two full-lengths, Plèbe 2178 (2021) and Bicolor Tantra (2024), each pushing further into dense, cosmic-tinged heaviness.

Absynthe brings heavy metal from the French underground since 2019, their intoxicating name a nod to the legendary spirit that inspired artists and rebels alike. Their traditional metal approach channels that same spirit of creative defiance.

Formed in November 1996 in Hamont-Achel, Limburg by guitarist Peter Bloemen and bassist Kevin Schutters, Absynthium evolved over their active years into a modern death/thrash hybrid with a sound they described as distinctly their own. The band was active until 2008 and remained independent throughout their run.