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A Thousand Sufferings are a four-piece from Sint-Amands, Belgium, formed by veterans of Verloren, Vex, and other Belgian projects, who describe their mission as "combining black and doom metal to bring you the ultimate experience of discomfort and misery." Albums including Het Pact, Stilte, and Bleakness document a project committed to slow, suffocating heaviness and the emotional extremity that fusing these two subgenres can produce.
A Throat Slit channels death and black metal from Skellefteå in northern Sweden since 2024. Their viscerally violent name drives compositions of uncompromising extremity from this Norrland coastal city.
Tucson, Arizona black metal project channeling Carpathian vampire mythology through desert heat. Romanian horror reimagined in the American Southwest.
A Vintage Death crafts blackened doom and death metal from Ortona in Chieti province on the Adriatic coast of Abruzzo since 2018. Their oxymoronic name pairs aged refinement with mortality, a tension their darkly atmospheric compositions explore.
Athens' A.B.L. fuse black and thrash metal into a ferocious assault of speed-driven riffing and venomous vocals. Formed in 2020, they channel the aggression of the first-wave Greek black metal scene through a modern thrash-inflected lens.
A.H.P. channels black metal and ambient from Bergen since 2012. Their abbreviated identity adds enigmatic anonymity to compositions that draw from the atmospheric traditions of Norway's western fjord city — one of black metal's most hallowed geographic origins.
A.I.D.S. is a black metal band originally from Fort Wayne, Indiana and later based in Casper, Wyoming. Active since 2004, the band has released three full-lengths and a demo spanning nearly two decades of raw, uncompromising black metal, from early lo-fi provocations to the more refined assault of 2022's "MALEFICUS SABBATUM."
A.N.A.E.L. fuses black metal, death metal, industrial metal, and melodic death metal from the southern French port of Toulon since 2021. Their four-genre fusion creates an unusually broad and ambitious sound from the Provençal underground.
A black metal project from Ponta Grossa, Paraná, formed in 2019 as a side outlet for Draugur, the figure behind the band Paarthurnax. Signed to Arte Ancestral Records, A.N.T.I.L.I.V. has released the albums Superioridade Atemporal and Vilipêndio, channeling themes of war, hate, and misanthropy through a raw and uncompromising black metal framework.
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