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Ashlands creates atmospheric black metal and ambient from Foligno in Umbria since 2019. Their desolate name evokes barren landscapes, which they render through vast atmospheric passages from the green heart of Italy.
Los Angeles black metal act drawing from Tolkien's dark mythology, channeling the shadow of Mordor through SoCal's diverse extreme metal underground.
Ashtar are a Basel duo formed in 2012 by Marko and Nadine Lehtinen, both veterans of the Swiss doom acts Phased and shEver, crafting a haunting hybrid of black metal, sludge, and doom built on down-tuned riffs, heavy bass, and layered, dissonant melodies. Signed to Northern Fog Records, they have released four albums — "Ilmasaari" (2015), "Kaikuja" (2020), "Wandering Through Time" (2023), and "The Return of the Frozen Souls" (2024).
Ashtavakra is a black and death metal project from Germany, formed in 2016, named after the Hindu sage whose name means 'eight bends,' suggesting a thematic interest in Eastern mysticism within the extreme metal framework. The project blends black and death metal influences into a harsh, uncompromising sound.
Ashtoreth is a doom/black metal band from Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, whose music is steeped in the mythology and folklore of the city known as the "island of magic." Their 2022 debut album Bruxólico — released on Dejeto Sonoro Records — weaves distorted guitars, unconventional percussion including a zither, and varied vocal approaches into six tracks across 40 minutes, drawing on local witchcraft legends and the poetry of Symbolist writer João da Cruz e Sousa. The album is envisioned as the first part of a trilogy.
Ashur merges black and death metal from Łódź since 2018. Named after the principal Assyrian deity, they bring Mesopotamian mythological weight to their dual-genre compositions from Poland's third-largest city.
Ashvintera is a German raw black metal and dungeon synth project formed in 2020, inhabiting the intersection of lo-fi black metal hostility and the medieval, atmospheric soundscapes of dungeon synth. The project represents the growing cross-pollination between these two underground styles.
Ashwind is a German melodic black metal project whose 2016 release Of Austere Light features five instrumental atmospheric black metal compositions including the fourteen-minute title track. The project blends dark atmospherics with melodic instrumentation, its German-language titles like Einsamkeit Ufer and Verwusten revealing themes of solitude and devastation.
A spectral black metal project from England, Ashwinds conjure bleak, wind-swept atmospheres through raw tremolo melodies and cavernous production. Active since 2013, the project channels the desolation of the British landscape into frigid, contemplative black metal.
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