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Asketic are a Swiss death/doom duo — guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Morten C. Hack alongside vocalist Remo McTegam — whose releases on Bandcamp include the concept albums "Spinalonga" (2021), named for the Cretan leper colony, "Toxicity" (2022), "Gruinard" (2024), and "Ruination" (2024). Their sound is recorded at Hedgehog Studio, mixing sepulchral vocals with slow, textured riffing under the band's self-described banner of "death doom darkness."
Spokane death metal band bringing crushing heaviness to Eastern Washington's inland metal scene, operating far from the coastal hubs but with no less intensity.
Askheimr creates melodic black and death metal from an undisclosed Norwegian location since 2019. Their Old Norse-styled name — suggesting a realm of ash — drives melodic compositions rooted in Norse cosmological imagery.
Askon is a black and death metal band from Bayreuth in Upper Franconia, Germany, whose release The End is Near blends the aggression of both genres. The band operates from the Wagnerian city in northern Bavaria, contributing to the region's extreme metal underground.
Asleep crafts melodic death metal from Zduńska Wola in central Poland since 2005. Two decades of activity from this Łódź Voivodeship textile town have produced a body of melodic extremity that belies their somnolent name.
Asma crafts death metal from the Basque Country, channeling the region's intense musical heritage into suffocating extremity since 2015. Their name, meaning "asthma," aptly describes the breathless intensity of their sonic assault.
Asmodee merges black and death metal from Nantes since 2004, named after the demon of lust from Hebrew mythology. Over two decades of infernal extremity have established them within the Loire-Atlantique's underground metal community.
Asmodeus is a thrash/death metal band from Fortaleza, Ceará, with roots tracing back to the city's early heavy metal underground. After a long dormancy, the band was reactivated around 2015 to mark the 30th anniversary of the Tempestade Metálica festival — a cornerstone event in Ceará's metal history — and have since recorded two studio albums: Parabellum (2018) and Continuamos a Falar de Flores (2021).
Asmodeus Mantra conjures death metal from Budapest, where they formed in 2019 under a name invoking one of demonology's most fearsome princes. Their ritualistic approach to death metal sets them apart within the Hungarian capital's extreme music underground.
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