After the Abduction merges death and progressive metal from Manchester since 2016, their alien-encounter name hinting at the otherworldly dimensions their compositions explore. Their approach brings both brutality and cerebral complexity to the northern English metal scene.

After the Last Sky fuses death metal, grindcore, and metalcore from Stoke-on-Trent since 2011, creating a volatile triple-genre hybrid from the Potteries. Over a decade of extreme crossover speaks to the Staffordshire underground's vitality.

After the Plague creates death metal from Savona on the Ligurian coast since 2014. Their pestilential name evokes medieval devastation, which they translate into modern musical destruction from this Riviera port city.

After Tomorrow are a melodic death metal band from Kirchbichl in Tyrol, self-releasing their material on Bandcamp. The band draws on the Gothenburg-influenced sound of melodic death metal, blending aggressive riffing with melodic guitar leads in the European extreme metal tradition.

Afterbleeding delivers technical brutal death metal from Porto since 2020. Their post-hemorrhagic name captures the aftermath of violence that their surgically precise compositions explore from northern Portugal.

Athens' Afterblood combine death and thrash metal into a relentless barrage of technical riffing and percussive fury. Since 2013, they've maintained an uncompromising approach to extreme metal that draws equally from both genres.

Afterburner creates death metal from Irkutsk in eastern Siberia since 2012. Named after the jet-engine afterburning technique, they deliver over a decade of high-thrust brutality from the shores of Lake Baikal.

Afterburning plays heavy metal from Mortara in the Pavia province of Lombardy since 2013. Named after the jet-engine technique that produces extra thrust, their sound carries the accelerated power their aerospace-derived name implies.

AfterFlesh is a death metal band from Seville, Spain, formed in 2020, featuring members from MonkeyPriest, Lead Coffin, Scumworm, and Lapidated, whose 2020 demo Corrupted was recorded with producer Miguel Grindermassive at AfterCave Studios. The two-track demo of brutal death metal marked the beginning of the band's trajectory toward a planned debut full-length album.