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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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A Forest of Stars invented "Steam Powered Black Metal" in Leeds in 2007, fusing Victorian aesthetics with psychedelic black metal, folk, and electronica to create something truly unique. Cited as one of the UK's leading avant-garde black metal outfits, their albums from "The Corpse of Rebirth" onward incorporate violins, flutes, and ethereal female vocals alongside the psychedelic madness influenced by Fleurety, Swans, and Pink Floyd.
A Sleeping Hydra is an experimental thrash metal band from California. Their sound merges thrash aggression with avant-garde experimentation, documented across their 2023 EP "Carry A Light" and 2024 full-length "Global Evil."
Aabode merges avant-garde experimentation with death metal from the Lorraine city of Nancy since 2023. Their approach pushes death metal into uncharted territory, reflecting the adventurous spirit of France's eastern underground metal community.
Aarni has crafted avant-garde doom metal from Oulu in northern Finland since 2002, drawing from Finnish shamanistic tradition and folklore to create some of the genre's most eccentric and unpredictable compositions. Their name derives from a Finnish mythological concept of primordial power.
Abbey ov Thelema has evolved from dark ambient into avant-garde black metal from Zvolen in central Slovakia since 2012. Named after Aleister Crowley's mystical retreat with deliberately archaic spelling, they channel occult philosophy through experimental extremity.
A four-piece avant-garde black metal outfit from Goslar, Germany, Abglanz draw their creative vision from the deep forests, rugged mountains, and folklore of the Harz region. Their releases Dawn of Eternal Existence and Call of the Woods explore the mystical power of nature alongside darker themes of spiritual decay and human corruption.
Ad-hoC are an avant-garde black metal band from Altenburg in the former East German state of Thuringia, active since 2011. Across releases like Nonkonform and Mortal Years, they pursue an unconventional vision that positions them at the experimental fringe of the German black metal scene.
Aeon 9 creates avant-garde black metal from Donetsk since 2006. Two decades of experimental black metal from this war-affected eastern Ukrainian industrial city speak to artistic resilience amid extraordinary circumstances.
Akphaezya crafts wildly eclectic avant-garde progressive metal from Orléans, drawing from sources as diverse as Mr. Bungle, Queen, and death metal across conceptual albums like "The Tragedy of Nerak." Their genre-defying approach, blending metal with jazz and theatrical elements, has made them one of France's most adventurous and unpredictable acts.
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