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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Autumn Aurora merges progressive death and black metal from Murmansk since 2016. From Russia's largest Arctic city, their seasonal-light name channels the brief, brilliant colors of polar autumn into compositions of technical extremity.
Autumn Crows crafts melodic death metal from an undisclosed Swedish location since 2018. Their seasonal-corvid name drives compositions of dark melodic beauty informed by the character of Nordic autumn.
Mansfield, Ohio death metal project. The oxymoronic name — autumn implies change, eternal implies permanence — captures the tension at the heart of their heavy music.
Newington, Connecticut death metal project whose 2025 EP Rise from Detritus promises rebirth from decay. New England extremity finding growth in destruction.
San Diego black/death metal act blending seasonal melancholy with extreme metal aggression, contributing to Southern California's diverse underground with atmospheric intensity.
Autumnal Cold crafts melodic death metal from Sokołów Podlaski in eastern Masovia since 2018. Their seasonal name captures the biting chill of Polish autumn, which their melodic compositions render in musical frost.
Autumnal Discord crafts atmospheric death and doom metal from Moscow since 2021. Their seasonal-conflict name drives compositions that explore the tension between beauty and decay in autumn's annual drama.
Autumnia has delivered melodic doom and death metal from Kryvyi Rih since 2009. Over fifteen years from this major Ukrainian industrial city known as one of the world's longest cities, they have built a substantial body of melancholic compositions.
Avangard explores progressive and technical death metal from Irkutsk as of 2025. Their Russian spelling of 'avant-garde' drives technically ambitious compositions from the gateway city to Lake Baikal.
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