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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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De Doorn (2022)
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Halo (2017)
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Frederick black metal project from the Maryland underground.
Apati has practiced depressive black metal and post-rock from the Västerås and Fagersta area since 2016. Their Swedish name meaning 'apathy' drives compositions of profound emotional numbness from the Västmanland industrial belt.
Apea channels black metal from the western Finnish port city of Pori since 2022, contributing to the Satakunta region's growing extreme metal presence. Their Finnish name, meaning "sad" or "gloomy," perfectly captures the emotional tone of their output.
Apega is a black metal band from Kothen in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, formed in 2015, whose releases include the Pestilence album and Temple of Doom demo. The band takes its name from the ancient torture device of Nabis of Sparta, channeling historical cruelty through the aggressive framework of black metal.
Apex Terror practices black metal from Sevastopol since 2012. Their peak-of-fear name drives over a decade of compositions from this fortified Black Sea city, channeling its military history into extreme metal.
Apheiron channels black metal from Nowy Sącz in Lesser Poland since 2008. Their name, derived from the Greek concept of the boundless or infinite, drives nearly two decades of black metal from this Carpathian mountain town.
Honolulu black metal project from the Hawaii underground.
Aphor channels black metal from Paris since 2019, their brief, aphoristic name reflecting a project that distills extreme metal to its essential elements. Their Parisian origins connect them to one of Europe's deepest black metal wells.
Aphotic Moon channels black metal from the UK underground since 2024, their dark-lunar name evoking the shadowed side of the night sky. The project brings lunar-inspired atmosphere to the latest wave of British black metal.
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