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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Averse has explored progressive black metal from Lille in northern France since 2007, pushing the boundaries of the genre through nearly two decades of compositional experimentation. Their contrarian name captures the spirit of opposition that drives their unconventional approach.
Black metal project that relocated from Los Angeles to Philadelphia, carrying West Coast atmospheric influence into East Coast extremity across two of America's major metal scenes.
Austin black metal. Intellectual, esoteric, and crushingly heavy.
Aversio Humanitatis has become one of Madrid's most internationally recognized black metal acts, signed to the prestigious Debemur Morti Productions and Sentient Ruin Laboratories. From "Abandonment Ritual" through "Behold the Silent Dwellers" and their upcoming "To Become The Endless Static," they walk through ghostly cityscapes via unrelenting dissonant black metal that explores humanity's destructive pursuit of perfection.
Aversion Cult creates raw black metal from an undisclosed Russian location as of 2025. Their repulsion-worship name drives lo-fi compositions of deliberate hostility and ritualized disgust.
Avertia channels black metal from Bergen since 2009, their Latin-derived name suggesting aversion or turning away. Over fifteen years in Norway's western black metal heartland, they have crafted a substantial body of misanthropic work.
Split's Averzija ('aversion' in Croatian) channel depressive black metal of raw emotional intensity, exploring themes of disgust, hopelessness, and self-loathing. Active since 2013, they represent the Dalmatian contribution to DSBM's global underground.
Avet merges black and death metal from Ruma in Srem since 2010. Their Serbian name meaning 'ghost' or 'phantom' drives over fifteen years of spectral extremity from this Vojvodina town.
Aveth has evolved from black metal into a black, folk, and doom metal hybrid from Kungur in the Perm Region since 2018. From this small Ural town famous for its ice caves, they channel subterranean darkness through multiple genre lenses.
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