Aesir is a remarkably prolific thrash metal solo project from Croton Falls, New York. With nine releases across just three years (2023-2025), including three full-lengths and six EPs, the project maintains a relentless output of riff-driven thrash spanning conceptual territory from sci-fi to existential themes.

Oak Grove, Missouri thrash metal project. Eternal aggression from the Kansas City suburbs.

Central Islip, Long Island thrash metal project. Suburban suffering rendered as speed metal aggression.

Afrobomination is a death/thrash metal and crust punk band of uncertain origin. Their gleefully chaotic output — including a twenty-track demo called "Space Motherfuckers" and a full-length sequel — suggests a band that refuses to take themselves seriously while still delivering genuinely aggressive extreme metal.

After Death is a staggeringly prolific death metal project from Tampa, Florida. With fifteen releases in just three years (2022-2024), the project channels the city's legendary death metal legacy into a ceaseless torrent of material spanning multiple languages and thematic concepts, from Italian horror ("Quel Cimitero Accanto Alla Villa") to abstract self-destruction ("SELF//WOUND").

Afterbirth is a progressive brutal death metal band from Long Island, New York. Active since the early 2010s, the band has built a cult following with releases like "Brutal Inception" and the 2023 full-length "In But Not Of," pushing brutal death metal into genuinely progressive territory with complex structures and unpredictable songwriting.

Afterlife is a technical death metal band from Mishawaka, Indiana. With six EPs released in rapid succession across 2021-2022, the project maintains a prolific output of technically demanding death metal.

Afterlyfe is a death/thrash metal band from Richmond, Virginia. Their 2024 debut "AfterLyfe Volume 1" delivers eleven tracks of aggressive death-thrash, with the "Volume 1" title suggesting this is only the beginning.

Hailing from St. Clair Shores, Michigan, Aftermass is a thrash metal band. The band has released their single "Untitled."