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Autarcie channels black metal from the Franche-Comté capital of Besançon since 2013, their French word for "autarky" or self-sufficiency reflecting a fiercely independent approach. Their isolationist name suits a project that operates entirely on its own terms.
Autism Forest is a one-person black metal and dungeon synth project from Buenos Aires, Argentina, created by the musician known as Avgrund. The project is prolific in releasing lo-fi atmospheric material, with titles including Arcane Nature, Thalassophobia, and the Dreams of Pelpiland series, as well as the 2025 EP Doppelganger.
Autofobia was a black metal band from Ancud, in the Los Lagos region of southern Chile, active and split-up in 2012. During their brief existence they released two recordings — the EP Misantropía and a self-titled demo — both exploring themes of misanthropy, depression, and anti-Christianity.
Boston black metal project exploring themes of self-creation through icy, atmospheric extremity, contributing to New England's quietly thriving black metal scene.
Mansfield Center, Connecticut black metal project with two releases since 2010. The Hill and Of The Land channel the New England countryside into atmospheric black metal that treats the rural Connecticut landscape as sacred ground.
Autophagie crafts atmospheric black metal from Ryazan as of 2025. Their French spelling of 'autophagy' — the cellular self-consumption process — drives compositions of atmospheric self-dissolution from this ancient city on the Oka River.
Autophagocytosis creates depressive black metal from an undisclosed Moldovan location since 2024. Named after the cellular process of self-digestion, their sound enacts a similar dissolution — consuming itself through anguished extremity.
Oakland death metal legends and architects of the death-doom subgenre. Their Bandcamp catalog includes Dead as..., representing one chapter of a career that fundamentally shaped extreme music worldwide. Chris Reifert and company created the template for merging death metal's fury with doom's crushing pace.
Autumn Aurora merges progressive death and black metal from Murmansk since 2016. From Russia's largest Arctic city, their seasonal-light name channels the brief, brilliant colors of polar autumn into compositions of technical extremity.
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