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Wichita black metal project from the Kansas underground.
April Hope crafts depressive and post-black metal from Ufa in Bashkortostan since 2009. Their springtime-optimism name creates a devastating contrast with the emotional devastation of their DSBM compositions from the Ural-Volga region.
Williamson black metal project from the West Virginia underground.
Kansas City, Missouri black metal project active since 2017. Their releases Remembrance and Homesick inject unusual emotional vulnerability into black metal, the spring-rain name suggesting a softer atmospheric approach that contrasts with the genre's typical harshness.
APRS channels atmospheric and post-black metal from an undisclosed Russian location since 2022. Their abbreviated identity maintains cryptic anonymity while their atmospheric compositions speak in expansive sonic paragraphs.
Apsis is a black metal band from Frankfurt, Germany, formed in 2009, blending black metal with blackgaze, post-metal, and ambient soundscapes. Their 2009 three-track Demonstration, featuring songs like Cradle of Creation and Four Elements, showcases a band that uses the celestial mechanics concept of their namesake to frame an expansive sound encompassing memories, noise, and emptiness.
Aptakhar practices black metal from Moscow since 2021. Their name, possibly derived from Turkic or Central Asian origins, adds steppe-culture mystique to their Russian capital-born black metal.
Apátrida is a black metal project with roots in Honduras that relocated to Queens, New York, exploring themes of darkness, nihilism, blasphemy, and existentialism. The project is signed to French label Atelier Arcanum and has released a prolific body of work including full-lengths and EPs such as Espectros, Individuación, and Weltschmerz. Their output ranges across raw black metal and more experimental directions, sung primarily in Spanish.
Aquelarre was a black metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, active in the underground scene and aligned with themes of Satanism, anti-Christianity, and hate in the tradition of South American raw black metal. They contributed a track to the Times of War - A Tribute to M.M.D.C. compilation before splitting up, leaving a small but ideologically committed footprint in the São Paulo scene.
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