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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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South Wales' Avagddu draw from Welsh mythology to create a distinctive blend of black, doom, folk, and funeral doom metal, named after the ugliest man in Welsh legend. Since 2008, their music has channelled the ancient darkness of Celtic folklore through sprawling, atmospheric compositions.
Bloomington, Indiana black metal act from the college town's underground, blending academic community with extreme metal's darkest impulses in the Hoosier State.
Avant Soliloque merges black and doom metal from Bucharest since 2013. Their French-inflected name, meaning 'before the soliloquy,' suggests compositions that build toward profound individual expression from the Romanian capital.
Athens' Avaris are veterans of the Greek black metal underground, active since 1997 and named after the ancient Hyksos capital in Egypt. Their long tenure has seen them evolve through multiple phases of black metal while maintaining ties to the scene's foundational era.
Avaron is a Hungarian black metal project that emerged in 2020 without disclosing its geographic base within the country. Their work draws from the isolationist tradition of black metal, favoring atmosphere and obscurity over public visibility.
Avarsír merges atmospheric black metal with doom metal's crushing pace, a Hungarian project formed in 2023 whose name translates roughly to 'Avar Grave,' referencing the medieval Avar people who once inhabited the Carpathian Basin. Their music excavates the historical darkness buried beneath the Hungarian plain.
Decatur, Illinois thrash metal project with six releases since 2012. Black Waltz and Feathers & Flesh deliver theatrical, riff-driven metal from central Illinois, building a substantial catalog from the heartland.
AvatariA is a gothic metal band with black metal influences from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2012, whose prolific catalog includes The Matrix Falls, Eneagramm, New World Order, The Last Falling, Apocalyptic, Memoirs of Humanity, and the 2025 release Downfall. The band blends gothic metal's dark atmospherics with death and black metal aggression across consistently released albums.
A brand-new folk-inflected black metal project from the UK, Avazeboz launched in 2026 with compositions that interweave traditional folk elements with tremolo-driven black metal intensity. Their approach bridges the gap between pastoral melody and extreme metal ferocity.
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