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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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Astre merges avant-garde experimentation with black metal from Toulouse since 2020, their French word for "star" illuminating compositions that reach for cosmic dimensions. Their Occitan origins feed a sound as expansive as the night sky.
Portland, Maine avant-garde and progressive metal project. The name merges audio technology with absence, signaling an experimental approach to heavy music from New England's cultural hub.
Velika Gorica's Avicularia were Croatian avant-garde death metal innovators who fused the dissonance of Immolation with jagged, technical compositions on their acclaimed debut 'Born to Be Vile.' Active from 2003 to 2017, they stood out in the Croatian metal scene for their willingness to push extreme metal into unconventional territory.
AZURE EMOTE is an avant-garde death metal project from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded in 2003 by vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Mike Hrubovcak as an outlet free from conventional genre constraints. The band's music incorporates experimental, industrial, electronic, doom, progressive, and blackened death metal elements, and has featured guest contributions from notable figures including Kelly Conlon (Death's Symbolic sessions) and former Eluveitie vocalist Anna Murphy. After a hiatus from 2007 to 2011, the band returned and released their fourth studio album, Cryptic Aura, via Testimony Records in 2025.
Aatra is a solo avant-garde black metal project from Brandenburg, Germany, created by Kimberly Fionna Candis, who writes, performs, and programs all music. The 2025 debut album The Nine Billion Heads of God, released on cassette through Cirsium Kollektivet, delivers thirteen tracks blending atmospheric black metal with philosophical and spiritual exploration across themes of cosmic transcendence and divine unity.
Oslo-based progressive grindcore innovators formed in 2010, nominated twice for the Norwegian Grammy in the metal category. Their irreverent approach layers mathcore, melodic black metal, and nu-metal flourishes over a grindcore foundation, producing endlessly surprising compositions across six full-length albums.
German avant-garde death metal band from Dortmund, formed in 2020. They take death metal into unconventional territory with avant-garde arrangements and experimental compositions.
Athens-based avant-garde black metal project active since 2024, pushing the genre's boundaries through unconventional structures, dissonant harmonies, and unexpected instrumental choices. Their restless creativity defies easy categorization within the broader black metal spectrum.
Milan-based avant-garde metal project active since 2022, pushing the boundaries of extreme music through unconventional structures and genre-defying sonic choices. Their compositions resist easy categorization, drawing from disparate influences to create something genuinely unpredictable.
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