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Asmodee merges black and death metal from Nantes since 2004, named after the demon of lust from Hebrew mythology. Over two decades of infernal extremity have established them within the Loire-Atlantique's underground metal community.
Denver black metal project named after the demon king. Three releases since 2014 including Dark Ides of Summer and Sanctuary build a catalog of occult-themed extremity from Mile High City's fertile black metal scene.
Asmodi is a pagan and black metal band from Preetz in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, formed in 2020, blending pagan folk themes with black metal's raw intensity. The band draws on northern German and Norse traditions from the Baltic coast region.
Asmodina was a melodic death/black metal band from Teresina, Piauí, a city with a small but determined extreme metal scene in Brazil's northeastern interior. The project drew on the melodic death and black metal aesthetics common to the early 2000s Brazilian underground before splitting up.
Asmon channels black metal from Elbląg in Warmia-Masuria since 2021. Their demonic name — a shortened form of Asmodeus — drives compositions of infernal hostility from this historic Hanseatic port city.
Asmund practices black metal from Kaluga since 2019. Their Old Norse name meaning 'divine protection' brings pagan heritage to black metal from this historic city southwest of Moscow.
Asnahsarg is a black metal project from Cologne, Germany, formed in 2025, representing one of the newest black metal acts in the Rhineland. The project channels the genre's characteristic darkness and aggression from one of Germany's largest cities.
Asofy has crafted black and doom metal from Milan since 2001, a quarter-century of activity that makes them one of Lombardy's most enduring dual-genre projects. Their long tenure has produced a body of work that bridges these two extreme styles with practiced fluency.
Aspaarn is a one-man raw black metal project from Lausanne, Switzerland, whose music shifts between ice-cold aggression and melancholic atmospheric passages rooted in nature and primordial history. The project's extensive catalog — including "Oblations in Atrocity," "When Iron Meant Survival," "Ancestral Genocides," and the EPs "Cataclysmic Eminences" and "Mørk Virvelvind" — stands among the more prolific efforts in the Swiss raw black metal underground.
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